subchapter_subject: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (CONTINUED)"
part_code: "172"
part_subject: "FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED FOR DIRECT ADDITION TO FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"
subpart_code: "I"
subpart_subject: "Multipurpose Additives"
section_number: "172.814"
section_subject: "Hydroxylated lecithin."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 172.814"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Parts 170 to 199"
revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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The food additive hydroxylated lecithin may be safely used as an emulsifier in foods in accordance with the following conditions:
(a)The additive is obtained by the treatment of lecithin in one of the following ways, under controlled conditions whereby the separated fatty acid fraction of the resultant product has an acetyl value of 30 to 38:
(1)With hydrogen peroxide, benzoyl peroxide, lactic acid, and sodium hydroxide.
(2)With hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, and sodium hydroxide.
(b)It is used or intended for use, in accordance with good manufacturing practice, as an emulsifier in foods, except for those standardized foods that do not provide for such use.
(c)To assure safe use of the additive, the label of the food additive container shall bear, in addition to the other information required by the Act:
(1)The name of the additive, “hydroxylated lecithin”.