Rule 21 Aug 2025 fda, manufacturing, medical devices, cosmetics, color additives, drugs, foods, food regulation, butterfly pea flower

🌈FDA Regulation on Butterfly Pea Flower Extract Color Additive

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.

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