[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: 21CFR172.490]
[Page 49]
TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES (CONTINUED)
PART 172--FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED FOR DIRECT ADDITION TO FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION--Table of Contents
Subpart E--Anticaking Agents
Sec. 172.490 Yellow prussiate of soda.
(a) The food additive yellow prussiate of soda (sodium ferrocyanide
decahydrate; Na4Fe(CN)610H2O
contains a minimum of 99 percent by weight of sodium ferrocyanide
decahydrate.
(b) The additive is used or intended for use as an anticaking agent
in salt and as an adjuvant in the production of dendritic crystals of
salt in an amount needed to produce its intended effect but not in
excess of 13 parts per million calculated as anhydrous sodium
ferrocyanide.
[42 FR 14491, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 58 FR 17098, Apr. 1, 1993]