subchapter_subject: "ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS"
part_code: "582"
part_subject: "SUBSTANCES GENERALLY RECOGNIZED AS SAFE"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "General Purpose Food Additives"
section_number: "582.1745"
section_subject: "Sodium carboxymethylcellulose."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 582.1745"
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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(a)Product. Sodium carboxymethyl- cellulose is the sodium salt of carboxymethylcellulose not less than 99.5 percent on a dry-weight basis, with maximum substitution of 0.95 carboxymethyl groups per anhydroglucose unit, and with a minimum viscosity of 25 centipoises for 2 percent by weight aqueous solution at 25 °C.
(b)Conditions of use. This substance is generally recognized as safe when used in accordance with good manufacturing or feeding practice.