The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule amending
21 C.F.R. 175.300 to reflect the industry’s abandonment of bisphenol A (BPA)-
based epoxy resins as coatings in infant formula packaging. As of July 12,
2013, the food additive regulations will no longer provide for this use of BPA.
According to FDA, its action followed Rep. Edward Markey’s (D-Mass.) petition
asserting that industry had stopped using BPA in infant formula packaging;
the action “is not “related to the safety of BPA.” See FDA Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition—Constituent Update, July 11, 2013.

 

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