Title 21: Food and Drugs
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/ PART 178 - INDIRECT FOOD ADDITIVES: ADJUVANTS, PRODUCTION AIDS, AND SANITIZERS
/ Subpart D - Certain Adjuvants and Production Aids / § 178.3720 Petroleum wax, synthetic.
§ 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.