subchapter_subject: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (CONTINUED)"
part_code: "173"
part_subject: "SECONDARY DIRECT FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED IN FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"
subpart_code: "D"
subpart_subject: "Specific Usage Additives"
section_number: "173.340"
section_subject: "Defoaming agents."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 173.340"
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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Defoaming agents may be safely used in processing foods, in accordance with the following conditions:
(1)Substances generally recognized by qualified experts as safe in food or covered by prior sanctions for the use prescribed by this section.
(2)Substances listed in this paragraph (a)(2) of this section, subject to any limitations imposed:
(3)Substances listed in this paragraph (a)(3), provided they are components of defoaming agents limited to use in processing beet sugar and yeast, and subject to any limitations imposed:
(4)The substances listed in this paragraph (a)(4), provided they are components of defoaming agents limited to use in processing beet sugar only, and subject to the limitations imposed:
(b)They are added in an amount not in excess of that reasonably required to inhibit foaming.