Rule2025-16045
Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Butterfly Pea Flower Extract; Confirmation of Effective Date
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Published
August 21, 2025
Effective
June 26, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentFood and Drug Administration
Abstract
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is confirming the effective date of June 26, 2025, for the final order that appeared in the Federal Register of May 12, 2025. The final order amends the color additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of butterfly pea flower extract as a color additive at levels consistent with good manufacturing practice (GMP) in: ready-to-eat cereals, crackers, snack mixes, hard pretzels, plain potato chips (restructured or baked), and plain corn chips, tortilla chips, and multigrain chips.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 160 (Thursday, August 21, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 40704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16045]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
21 CFR Part 73
[Docket No. FDA-2024-C-0971]
Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Butterfly
Pea Flower Extract; Confirmation of Effective Date
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Final amendment; order; confirmation of effective date.
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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is confirming the
effective date of June 26, 2025, for the final order that appeared in
the Federal Register of May 12, 2025. The final order amends the color
additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of butterfly
pea flower extract as a color additive at levels consistent with good
manufacturing practice (GMP) in: ready-to-eat cereals, crackers, snack
mixes, hard pretzels, plain potato chips (restructured or baked), and
plain corn chips, tortilla chips, and multigrain chips.
DATES: The effective date of June 26, 2025, for the final order
published in the Federal Register of May 12, 2025 (90 FR 20101), is
confirmed.
ADDRESSES: For access to the docket to read background documents or
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 final order into
the ``Search'' box and follow the prompts, and/or go to the Dockets
Management Staff, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rm. 1061, Rockville, MD 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen DiFranco, Office of Food
Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements, and Innovation, Human Foods
Program, Food and Drug Administration, 5001 Campus Dr., College Park,
MD 20740, 240-402-2710 or Meridith L. Kelsch, Office of Policy,
Regulations, and Information, Human Foods Program, Food and Drug
Administration, 5001 Campus Dr., College Park, MD 20740, 240-402-2378.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of May 12, 2025 (90
FR 20101), we amended the color additive regulations at Sec. 73.69 (21
CFR 73.69) ``Butterfly pea flower extract,'' to provide for the
expanded safe use of butterfly pea flower extract as a color additive
at levels consistent with GMP in: ready-to-eat cereals, crackers, snack
mixes, hard pretzels, plain potato chips (restructured or baked), and
plain corn chips, tortilla chips, and multigrain chips.
We gave interested persons until June 11, 2025 (90 FR 20101 at
20101) to file objections or requests for a hearing. We explained that,
to file an objection, persons must, among other things, specify with
particularity the provision(s) of the regulation to which they object
and the grounds for the objection (Id. at 20103). Within each
objection, persons also must specifically state whether they request a
hearing (Id.). We received one comment about labeling of the color
additive, but the comment did not meet the requirements to be
considered an objection under 21 CFR 12.22(a)(2) or (3). Therefore, we
find that the effective date of the final order that published in the
Federal Register of May 12, 2025, should be confirmed.
List of Subjects in 21 CFR Part 73
Color additives, Cosmetics, Drugs, Foods, Medical devices.
Therefore, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21
U.S.C. 321, 341, 342, 343, 348, 351, 352, 355, 361, 362, 371, 379e) and
under authority delegated to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, we are
giving notice that no objections or requests for a hearing were filed
in response to the May 12, 2025, final order. Accordingly, the
amendments issued thereby became effective June 26, 2025.
Grace R. Graham,
Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Legislation, and International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2025-16045 Filed 8-20-25; 8:45 am]
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