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CFSAN/Office of Food Additive Safety
November 30, 2007
| Date: | November 30, 2007 |
| From: | Environmental Review Team (ERT) Office of Food Additive Safety (HFS-246) |
| Subject: | FCN No. 775 - 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin for use as an antimicrobial agent in water supplied to ice machines to make ice used in poultry processing |
| Notifier: | Albemarle Poultry Sci., LLC 451 Florida Street Baton Rouge, LA 70801 |
| To: | Division of Food Contact Notifications (HFS-275) Attention: Vivian Gilliam. |
Attached is the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for FCN 775. When this notification becomes effective, the FONSI and the notifier's revised EA, dated November 19, 2007, may be made available to the public in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and we will post redacted copies of them on the internet at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~rdb/opa-envt.html.
Please let me know if there is any change in the identity or use of the food-contact substance.
Layla I. Batarseh, Ph.D.
Attachment:
Finding of No Significant Impact
A food contact notification (FCN No. 775), submitted by Albemarle Poultry Sciences, LLC, to provide for the safe use of 1,3-dibromo-5,5-dimethylhydantoin for use as an antimicrobial agent in water supplied to ice machines to make ice used in poultry processing
The Environmental Review Team 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 a revised environmental assessment, dated November 19, 2007.
Prepared by:__________________________________________Date: November 30, 2007
Layla I. Batarseh, Ph.D., Supervisor
Environmental Review Team
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration
