subchapter_subject: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (CONTINUED)"
part_code: "173"
part_subject: "SECONDARY DIRECT FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED IN FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"
subpart_code: "C"
subpart_subject: "Solvents, Lubricants, Release Agents and Related Substances"
section_number: "173.275"
section_subject: "Hydrogenated sperm oil."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 173.275"
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 hydrogenated sperm oil may be safely used in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(a)The sperm oil is derived from rendering the fatty tissue of the sperm whale or is prepared by synthesis of fatty acids and fatty alcohols derived from the sperm whale. The sperm oil obtained by rendering is refined. The oil is hydrogenated.
(b)It is used alone or as a component of a release agent or lubricant in bakery pans.
(c)The amount used does not exceed that reasonably required to accomplish the intended lubricating effect.