subchapter_subject: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (CONTINUED)"
part_code: "173"
part_subject: "SECONDARY DIRECT FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED IN FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION"
subpart_code: "A"
subpart_subject: "Polymer Substances and Polymer Adjuvants for Food Treatment"
section_number: "173.75"
section_subject: "Sorbitan monooleate."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 173.75"
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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Sorbitan monooleate may be safely used in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(a)The additive is produced by the esterification of sorbitol with commercial oleic acid.
(c)The additive is used or intended for use as follows:
(1)As an emulsifier in polymer dispersions that are used in the clarification of cane or beet sugar juice or liquor in an amount not to exceed 7.5 percent by weight in the final polymer dispersion.
(2)The additive is used in an amount not to exceed 0.70 part per million in sugar juice and 1.4 parts per million in sugar liquor.