subchapter_subject: "FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (CONTINUED)"
part_code: "186"
part_subject: "INDIRECT FOOD SUBSTANCES AFFIRMED AS GENERALLY RECOGNIZED AS SAFE"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Listing of Specific Substances Affirmed as GRAS"
section_number: "186.1673"
section_subject: "Pulp."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 186.1673"
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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(a)Pulp is the soft, spongy pith inside the stem of a plant such as wood, straw, sugarcane, or other natural plant sources.
(b)The ingredient is used or intended for use as a constituent of food packaging containers.
(c)The ingredient is used in paper and paperboard made by conventional paper-making processes at levels not to exceed good manufacturing practice.
(d)Prior sanctions for this ingredient different from the uses established in this section do not exist or have been waived.