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Code of Federal Regulations Title 21. Food and Drugs § 21.172.135 Disodium EDTA

Current as of January 02, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

The food additive disodium EDTA (disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate) may be safely used in designated foods for the purposes and in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:

(a) The additive contains a minimum of 99 percent disodium ethylenedia-minetetraacetate dihydrate (C10H14O8N2Na2 • 2H2O).

(b) It is used or intended for use as follows:

(1) Alone, in the following foods at not to exceed the levels prescribed, calculated as anhydrous calcium disodium EDTA:

Food

Limitation (parts per million)

Use

Aqueous multivitamin preparations

150

With iron salts as a stabilizer for vitamin B12 in liquid multivitamin preparations.

Canned black-eyed peas

145

Promote color retention.

Canned kidney beans

165

Preservative.

Canned strawberry pie filling

500

Promote color retention.

Cooked sausage

36

As a cure accelerator with sodium ascorbate or ascorbic acid.

Dressings, nonstandardized

75

Preservative.

French dressing

75

Do.

Frozen white potatoes including cut potatoes

100

Promote color retention.

Gefilte fish balls or patties in packing medium

150

Inhibit discoloration.

Legumes (all cooked canned, other than black-eyed peas)

165

Promote color retention.

Mayonnaise

75

Preservative.

Ready-to-eat cereal products containing dried bananas

2315

Promote color retention.

Salad dressing

75

Preservative.

Sandwich spread

100

Do.

Sauces

75

Do.

1 Based on total weight of finished product including packing medium.

2 In dried banana component of cereal product.

(2) With calcium disodium EDTA (calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate;  calcium disodium (ethylenedinitrilo) tetraacetate), in the following foods at not to exceed, in combination, the levels prescribed, calculated as anhydrous C10H12O8N2CaNa2:

Food

Limitation (parts per million)

Use

Dressings, nonstandardized

75

Preservative.

French dressing

75

Do.

Mayonnaise

75

Do.

Salad dressing

75

Do.

Sandwich spread

100

Do.

Sauces

75

Do.

(3) Alone, as a sequestrant in the nonnutritive sweeteners that are listed in § 180.37 of this chapter and that, in addition, are designed for aqueous solution:  Provided, That the amount of the additive, calculated as anhydrous calcium disodium EDTA, does not exceed 0.1 percent by weight of the dry nonnutritive sweetener.

(c) To assure the safe use of the additive:

(1) The label and labeling of the additive container shall bear, in addition to the other information required by the act, the name of the additive.

(2) The label or labeling of the additive container shall bear adequate use directions to provide a final food product that complies with the limitations provided in paragraph (b) of this section.

(d) In the standardized foods listed in paragraphs (b)(1) and (2) of this section the additives are used only in compliance with the applicable standards of identity for such foods.

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