Health and Human Services Department Docket FDA-2013-N-0888 Final Rule

2016-16738: Food Additives Permitted for Direct Addition to Food for Human Consumption; Vitamin D2 and Vitamin D3

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Summary

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is amending the food additive regulations to expand the safe uses of vitamin D<INF>2</INF> as a nutrient supplement in edible plant-based beverages intended for use as milk alternatives and in edible plant-based yogurt alternatives and vitamin D<INF>3</INF> as a nutrient supplement in milk at levels higher than those currently permitted. We are taking this action in response to a food additive petition filed by Dean Foods Company and WhiteWave Foods Company.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

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