Filing of Food Additive Petition From Environmental Defense Fund, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners, Center for Food Safety, Environmental Working Group, Tom Neltner, and Maricel Maffini; Request To Amend the Food Additive Regulations To Remove Authorization of Fluorinated Polyethylene; Reopening of the Comment Period; Correction

Document 2024-16337 is a Proposed Rule published by the Food and Drug Administration in the Federal Register on July 25, 2024. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is reopening the comment period for the notification of petition, published in the Federal Register of April 26, 2024, announcing that we have filed a food additive petition, submitted by Environmental Defense Fund, et al., proposing that the food additive regulations be amended to remove fluorinated polyethylene. FDA is reopening the comment period to add the food additive petition to the docket. FDA is also making a correction to the filing notice. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/07/25/2024-16337/filing-of-food-additive-petition-from-environmental-defense-fund-breast-cancer-prevention-partners.

No. Document 2024-16337 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.