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Environmental Decision Memo for Food Contact Notification No. 000424

Date: May 18, 2004

 

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

 

Subject: FCN No. 424 - Ethylene/octene copolymers containing up to 50 weight percent polymer units derived from 1-octene for use in food contact articles

 

Notifier: The Dow Chemical Company
1803 Building
Midland, MI 48674

 

To: Division of Food Contact Notifications (HFS-275)
Attention: Mark Hepp, Ph.D.
Through: Layla I. Batarseh, Ph.D., Supervisor, ERG

 

 

Attached is the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for FCN 424. When this notification becomes effective, this FONSI and the notifier's environmental assessment, dated March 23, 2004, 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.

 

 

 

Annette M. McCarthy, Ph.D.

 

 

 




Finding of No Significant Impact

A food contact notification (FCN No. 424), submitted by The Dow Chemical Company, to provide for the safe use ethylene/octene copolymers containing up to 50 weight percent of polymer units derived from 1-octene as articles or components of articles in contact with all types of food.

 

 

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 March 23, 2004.

 

 

 

Prepared by ____________________________________ Date: May 18, 2004
Annette McCarthy, 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: May 18, 2004
Layla I. Batarseh, Ph.D., Supervisor
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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