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Environmental Decision Memo for Food Contact Notification No. 000292

Date: November 1, 2002

 

From: Environmental Toxicologist, Environmental Review Group (ERG)
Division of Chemistry Research and Environmental Review (HFS-246)

 

Subject: FCN No. 292 - Polyvinylimidazole as a component of filter media used in the removal of metals and sulfides in alcoholic beverages

 

Notifier: Gordon Burns and Robert Elsworth
899 Adams Street, Suite A
St. Helena, CA 94574

 

To: Division of Food Contact Substance Notification Review (HFS-275)
Attention: Hortense S. Macon
Through: Paul C. DeLeo, Ph.D., Environmental Scientist, ERG

 

 

Attached is the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for this food contact notification. When this notification becomes effective, this FONSI and the notifier's environmental assessment, dated October 7, 2002, may be made available to the public.

 

Please let us know if there is any change in the identity or use of the food-contact substance.

 

 

 

Tong Zhou, Ph.D.

 

 




Finding of No Significant Impact

A food contact notification (FCN No. 292), submitted by Gordon Burns and Robert Ellsworth to provide for the safe use of cross-linked terpolymer of 1-vinylimidazole, 1-vinylpyrrolidone and 1,3-divinylimidazolidinone, also known as polyvinylimidazole, as a component of filter media, for the removal of metals and sulfides in alcoholic beverages using repeat-usage filtering equipment.

 

 

The Environmental Review Group has determined that allowing this notification to become effective will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment and therefore will not require the preparation of an environmental impact statement. This finding is based on information submitted by the notifier in an environmental assessment dated October 7, 2002.

 

 

 

Prepared by________________________________________ Date: October 31, 2002
Tong Zhou, Ph.D., Environmental Toxicologist
Environmental Review Group
Division of Chemistry Research and Environmental Review
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration

 

 

 

Approved by________________________________________ Date: October 31, 2002
Paul C. DeLeo, Ph.D., Environmental Scientist
Environmental Review Group
Division of Chemistry Research and Environmental Review
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration

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