Listing of Color Additives Exempt From Certification; Butterfly Pea Flower Extract; Confirmation of Effective Date

Document 2025-16045 is a Final Rule published by the Food and Drug Administration in the Federal Register on August 21, 2025, with an effective date of June 26, 2025. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is confirming the effective date of June 26, 2025, for the final order that appeared in the Federal Register of May 12, 2025. The final order amends the color additive regulations to provide for the expanded safe use of butterfly pea flower extract as a color additive at levels consistent with good manufacturing practice (GMP) in: ready-to-eat cereals, crackers, snack mixes, hard pretzels, plain potato chips (restructured or baked), and plain corn chips, tortilla chips, and multigrain chips. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/21/2025-16045/listing-of-color-additives-exempt-from-certification-butterfly-pea-flower-extract-confirmation-of.

No. Document 2025-16045 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.