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: "573.420"
section_subject: "Ethyl cellulose."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 573.420"
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 ethyl cellulose may be safely used in animal feed in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(a)The food additive is a cellulose ether containing ethoxy (OC2H5) groups attached by an ether linkage and containing on an anhydrous basis not more than 2.6 ethoxy groups per anhydroglucose unit.
(b)It is used or intended for use as a binder or filler in dry vitamin preparations to be incorporated into animal feed.