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CFSAN/Office of Food Additive Safety
June 20, 2001
Date: June 20, 2001
From: Environmental Chemist, Environmental Group
Division of Chemistry Research and Environmental Review
Subject: FCN No. 141 - Component of Filter Sheets Used with Alcoholic Beverages
Notifier: Gordon Burns and Robert M. Ellsworth
To: Division of Food Contact Substance Notification Review
Attention: Hortense Macon
Through: Supervisor, Environmental Group
Attached is the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for this premarket notification. When this notification becomes effective, this FONSI and the notifier's environmental assessment, dated December 15, 2000, may be made available to the public.
Please let us know if there is any change in the identity or use of the food-contact substance that would be inconsistent with the identity and use described in the FONSI.
Elizabeth Ann Cox
Attachment
A premarket notification (FCN No. 141) submitted by Gordon Burns and Robert M. Ellsworth, to provide for the safe use of the cross-linked terpolymer of 1-vinylimidazole, 1-vinylpyrrolidone and 1,3-divinylimidazolidinone, which is also known as polyvinylimidazol, as a component of filter sheets used in the removal of metals and sulfides from alcoholic beverages.
The Environmental Group has determined that allowing this notification to become effective will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment and therefore will not require the preparation of an environmental impact statement. This finding is based on information submitted by the notifier in an environmental assessment, dated December 15, 2000.
Prepared by_____________________________________________ Date: June 20, 2001
Elizabeth Ann Cox, Environmental Chemist
Environmental Group
Division of Chemistry Research and Environmental Review
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration
Approved by_____________________________________________ Date: June 20, 2001
Layla, Baratarseh, Ph.D., Supervisor
Environmental Group
Division of Chemistry Research and Environmental Review
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration
