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: "573.980"
section_subject: "Taurine."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 573.980"
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 taurine (2-amino-ethanesulfonic acid) may be safely used in feed in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(a)It is used as a nutritional supplement in the feed of growing chickens.
(b)It is added to complete feeds so that the total taurine content does not exceed 0.054 percent of the feed.
(c)To assure safe use of the additive, the label and labeling shall bear in addition to the other information required by the Act: