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Proposed Rule2026-10615

Food Additive Petition From Environmental Defense Fund, et al.; Request To Amend the Food Additive Regulations To Remove the Solvents Benzene, Ethylene Dichloride, Methylene Chloride, and Trichloroethylene; Reopening of the Comment Period

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Published
May 28, 2026

Issuing agencies

Health and Human Services DepartmentFood and Drug Administration

Abstract

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is reopening the comment period for the notification of petition, published in the Federal Register of January 11, 2024, announcing that we filed a food additive petition proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to remove four specified solvents. FDA is reopening the comment period to allow for the submission of any updated data and other information over the last two years.

Indexed from Federal Register on May 28, 2026.

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