subchapter_subject: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (CONTINUED)"
part_code: "177"
part_subject: "INDIRECT FOOD ADDITIVES: POLYMERS"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Substances for Use as Basic Components of Single and Repeated Use Food Contact Surfaces"
section_number: "177.1460"
section_subject: "Melamine-formaldehyde resins in molded articles."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 177.1460"
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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Melamine-formaldehyde resins may be safely used as the food-contact surface of molded articles intended for use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(a)For the purpose of this section, melamine-formaldehyde resins are those produced when 1 mole of melamine is made to react with not more than 3 moles of formaldehyde in water solution.
(b)The resins may be mixed with refined woodpulp and the mixture may contain other optional adjuvant substances which may include the following:
(c)The molded melamine-formaldehyde articles in the finished form in which they are to contact food, when extracted with the solvent or solvents characterizing the type of food and under the conditions of time and temperature as determined from tables 1 and 2 of § 175.300(d) of this chapter, shall yield net chloroform-soluble extractives not to exceed 0.5 milligram per square inch of food-contact surface.