Rule2024-12533
Food Additives Permitted in Feed and Drinking Water of Animals; Ethyl Cellulose
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Published
June 7, 2024
Effective
June 7, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentFood and Drug Administration
Abstract
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, we, or the Agency) is amending the regulations for food additives permitted in feed and drinking water of animals to provide for the safe use of ethyl cellulose as a matrix scaffolding for tracers, and the ethyl cellulose shall not exceed 80 percent of the tracer. This action is in response to a food additive petition filed by Micro-Tracers, Inc.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 111 (Friday, June 7, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 48507-48508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12533]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
21 CFR Part 573
[Docket No. FDA-2023-F-0147]
Food Additives Permitted in Feed and Drinking Water of Animals;
Ethyl Cellulose
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, we, or the Agency) is
amending the regulations for food additives permitted in feed and
drinking water of animals to provide for the safe use of ethyl
cellulose as a matrix scaffolding for tracers, and the ethyl cellulose
shall not exceed 80 percent of the tracer. This action is in response
to a food additive petition filed by Micro-Tracers, Inc.
DATES: This rule is effective June 7, 2024. See section V, Objections
and Hearing Requests, for further information on the filing of
objections. Either electronic or written objections and requests for a
hearing on the final rule must be submitted by July 8, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit objections and requests for a hearing as
follows. Please note that late, untimely filed objections will not be
considered. The <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> electronic filing system
will accept comments until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at the end of July
8, 2024. Objections received by mail/hand delivery/courier (for
written/paper submissions) will be considered timely if they are
received on or before that date.
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic objections in the following way:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the instructions for submitting objections. Objections submitted
electronically, including attachments, to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>
will be posted to the docket unchanged. Because your objection will be
made public, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your
objection does not include any confidential information that you or a
third party may not wish to be posted, such as medical information,
your or anyone else's Social Security number, or confidential business
information, such as a manufacturing process. Please note that if you
include your name, contact information, or other information that
identifies you in the body of your objection, that information will be
posted on <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
<bullet> If you want to submit an objection with confidential
information that you do not wish to be made available to the public,
submit the objection as a written/paper submission and in the manner
detailed (see ``Written/Paper Submissions'' and ``Instructions'').
Written/Paper Submissions
Submit written/paper submissions as follows:
<bullet> Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier (for written/paper
submissions): Dockets Management Staff (HFA-305), Food and Drug
Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
<bullet> For written/paper objections submitted to the Dockets
Management Staff, FDA will post your objection, as well as any
attachments, except for information submitted, marked and
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identified, as confidential, if submitted as detailed in
``Instructions.''
Instructions: All submissions received must include the Docket No.
FDA-2023-F-0147 for ``Food Additives Permitted in Feed and Drinking
Water of Animals; Ethyl Cellulose.'' Received objections, those filed
in a timely manner (see ADDRESSES), will be placed in the docket and,
except for those submitted as ``Confidential Submissions,'' publicly
viewable at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> or at the Dockets Management
Staff between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, 240-402-7500.
<bullet> Confidential Submissions--To submit an objection with
confidential information that you do not wish to be made publicly
available, submit your objections only as a written/paper submission.
You should submit two copies in total. One copy will include the
information you claim to be confidential with a heading or cover note
that states ``THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.'' The
Agency will review this copy, including the claimed confidential
information, in its consideration of objections. The second copy, which
will have the claimed confidential information redacted/blacked out,
will be available for public viewing and posted on <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Submit both copies to the Dockets Management
Staff. If you do not wish your name and contact information to be made
publicly available, you can provide this information on the cover sheet
and not in the body of your objections and you must identify this
information as ``confidential.'' Any information marked as
``confidential'' will not be disclosed except in accordance with 21 CFR
10.20 and other applicable disclosure law. For more information about
FDA's posting of comments to public dockets, see 80 FR 56469, September
18, 2015, or access the information at: <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf">https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2015-09-18/pdf/2015-23389.pdf</a>.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
the electronic and written/paper comments received, go to <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> and insert the docket number, found in brackets in
the heading of this document, into the ``Search'' box and follow the
prompts and/or go to the Dockets Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane,
Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852, 240-402-7500.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Megan Hall, Center for Veterinary
Medicine (HFV-221), Food and Drug Administration, 12225 Wilkins Ave.,
Rockville, MD 20852, 240-796-3801, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a0cdc5c7c1ce8ec8c1cccce0c6c4c18ec8c8d38ec7cfd6"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="204d4547414e0e48414c4c604644410e4848530e474f56">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
In a document published in the Federal Register of February 6, 2023
(88 FR 7657), FDA announced that we had filed a food additive petition
(animal use) (FAP 2316) submitted by Micro Tracers, Inc., 1375 Van Dyke
Ave., San Francisco, CA 94124. The petition proposed that the
regulations for food additives permitted in feed and drinking water of
animals be amended to provide for the safe use of ethyl cellulose as a
matrix scaffolding in tracers for use in feeds at no more than 0.09
grams per ton of feed (0.1 ppm).
II. Conclusion
Pursuant to the review of the petition, the intended use rate of
the ethyl cellulose in tracers is now characterized as a percentage of
the tracer, not as ppm in complete feed. The use of the food additive,
ethyl cellulose, as a component of the tracer is a more accurate
characterization of the food additive than as proposed in the petition
(the food additive as a component of complete feed). Therefore, the
intended use rate of the food additive has been recharacterized as a
percentage of the tracer. The ethyl cellulose is intended to be used as
a matrix scaffolding in tracers, with the ethyl cellulose content not
exceeding 80 percent of the tracer.
FDA concludes that the data establish the safety and utility of
ethyl cellulose as a matrix scaffolding in tracers, with the ethyl
cellulose content not exceeding 80 percent of the tracer and that the
food additive regulations should be amended as set forth in this
document.
III. Public Disclosure
In accordance with Sec. 571.1(h) (21 CFR 571.1(h)), the petition
and documents we considered and relied upon in reaching our decision to
approve the petition will be made available for public disclosure (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). As provided in Sec. 571.1(h), we
will delete from the documents any materials that are not available for
public disclosure.
IV. Analysis of Environmental Impact
We have determined under 21 CFR 25.32(r) that this action is of a
type that does not individually or cumulatively have a significant
effect on the human environment. Therefore, neither an environmental
assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.
V. Objections and Hearing Requests
If you will be adversely affected by one or more provisions of this
regulation, you may file with the Dockets Management Staff (see
ADDRESSES) either electronic or written objections. You must separately
number each objection, and within each numbered objection you must
specify with particularity the provision(s) to which you object, and
the grounds for your objection. Within each numbered objection, you
must specifically state whether you are requesting a hearing on the
particular provision that you specify in that numbered objection. If
you do not request a hearing for any particular objection, you waive
the right to a hearing on that objection. If you request a hearing,
your objection must include a detailed description and analysis of the
specific factual information you intend to present in support of the
objection in the event that a hearing is held. If you do not include
such a description and analysis for any particular objection, you waive
the right to a hearing on the objection.
List of Subjects in 21 CFR Part 573
Animal feeds, Food additives.
Therefore, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and under
authority delegated to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, 21 CFR part
573 is amended as follows:
PART 573--FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED IN FEED AND DRINKING WATER OF
ANIMALS
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1. The authority citation for part 573 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 342, 348.
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2. In Sec. 573.420, revise paragraph (b) to read as follows:
Sec. 573.420 Ethyl cellulose.
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(b) It is used or intended for use:
(1) As a binder or filler in dry vitamin preparations to be
incorporated into animal feed.
(2) As a matrix scaffolding for tracers, and the ethyl cellulose
content shall not exceed 80 percent of the tracer.
Dated: June 3, 2024.
Lauren K. Roth,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2024-12533 Filed 6-6-24; 8:45 am]
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