subchapter_subject: "ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS"
part_code: "573"
part_subject: "FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED IN FEED AND DRINKING WATER OF ANIMALS"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Food Additive Listing"
section_number: "573.304"
section_subject: "Chromium Propionate."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 573.304"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Parts 500 to 599"
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 chromium propionate may be safely used in animal feed as a source of supplemental chromium in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(a)The additive is manufactured by the reaction of a chromium salt with propionic acid, at an appropriate stoichiometric ratio, to produce triaqua-(mu3-oxo) hexakis (mu2-propionato-O,O′) trichromium propionate with the empirical formula, [Cr3(O)(CH3CH2CO2)6(H2O)3]CH3CH2CO2.
(b)The additive shall be incorporated at a level not to exceed 0.2 milligrams of chromium from chromium propionate per kilogram feed in broiler chicken complete feed.
(c)The additive meets the following specifications:
(d)The additive shall be incorporated into feed as follows:
(1)It shall be incorporated into each ton of complete feed by adding no less than one pound of a premix containing no more than 181.4 milligrams of added chromium from chromium propionate per pound.
(2)The premix manufacturer shall follow good manufacturing practices in the production of chromium propionate premixes. Inventory, production, and distribution records must provide a complete and accurate history of product production.
(3)Chromium from all sources of supplemental chromium cannot exceed 0.2 parts per million of the complete feed.
(e)To assure safe use of the additive in addition to the other information required by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act:
(1)The label and labeling of the additive, any feed premix, and complete feed shall contain the name of the additive.
(2)The label and labeling of the additive and any feed premix shall also contain:
(ii)Adequate directions for use and cautions for use including this statement: Caution: Follow label directions. Chromium from all sources of supplemental chromium cannot exceed 0.2 parts per million of the complete feed.