part_subject: "LISTING OF CERTIFIED PROVISIONALLY LISTED COLORS AND SPECIFICATIONS"
subpart_code: "A"
subpart_subject: "General Provisions"
section_number: "82.5"
section_subject: "General specifications for straight colors."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 82.5"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Parts 1 to 99"
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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No batch of a straight color listed in subpart B, C, or D shall be certified under this part unless:
(a)It is free from all impurities (other than those named in paragraph (b) of this section or in the specifications set forth in such paragraph for such color) to the extent that such impurities can be avoided by good manufacturing practice.
(ii)Arsenic (as As2O3), not more than 0.0002 percent.
(iii)Heavy metals (except Pb and As) (by precipitation as sulfides), not more than 0.003 percent.
(3)In the case of a straight color which contains a barium salt listed in subpart C or D—soluble barium (in dilute HCl) (as BaCl2), not more than 0.05 percent.