[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR177.1615]

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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 177--INDIRECT FOOD ADDITIVES: POLYMERS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart B--Substances for Use as Basic Components of Single and Repeated 
                        Use Food Contact Surfaces
 
Sec. 177.1615  Polyethylene, fluorinated.

    Fluorinated polyethylene, identified in paragraph (a) of this 
section, may be safely used as food-contact articles in accordance with 
the following prescribed conditions:
    (a) Fluorinated polyethylene food-contact articles are produced by 
modifying the surface of polyethylene articles through action of 
fluorine gas in combination with gaseous nitrogen as an inert diluent. 
Such modification affects only the surface of the polymer, leaving the 
interior unchanged. Fluorinated polyethylene articles are manufactured 
from basic resins containing not less than 85 weight-percent of polymer 
units derived from ethylene and identified in Sec. 177.1520 (a)(2) and 
(3)(i).
    (b) Fluorinated polyethylene articles conform to the specifications 
and use limitations of Sec. 177.1520(c), items 2.1 and 3.1.
    (c) The finished food-contact article, when extracted with the 
solvent or solvents characterizing the type of food and under conditions 
of time and temperature characterizing the conditions of its intended 
use as determined from tables 1 and 2 of Sec. 176.170(c) of this 
chapter, yields fluoride ion not to exceed 5 parts per million 
calculated on the basis of the volume of food held by the food-contact 
article.

[48 FR 39057, Aug. 29, 1983]