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Investigations    • Print   • Share   • E-mail  CPG Sec. 587.100
Label Declaration of Certification-Exempt Color Additives     On
8/1/85 this CPG issued without the term "color added" as a
permissible label declaration under Section 403(k) when a color
is added to a food. This is in accord with the literal
requirement of Section 403(k). However, it has come to our
attention that food manufacturers have, in good faith, been
complying with the previous long standing declaration of policy
in permitting the term "color added" to declare the presence of
an artificial color. Since it would not serve any useful purpose
to change policy at this time, we are reissuing the 8/1/85
edition of this CPG, with appropriate revisions.  Section 403(k)
of the FD&C Act states that if a food contains an artificial
color it should bear labeling "stating that fac