Regulations last checked for updates: Sep 29, 2023

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Sep 26, 2023
§ 178.3720 - Petroleum wax, synthetic.

Synthetic petroleum wax may be safely used in applications and under the same conditions where naturally derived petroleum wax is permitted in subchapter B of this chapter as a component of articles intended to contact food, provided that the synthetic petroleum wax meets the definition and specifications prescribed in § 172.888 of this chapter.

authority: 21 U.S.C. 321,342,348,379e
source: 42 FR 14609, Mar. 15, 1977, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 178.3720