[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR19.58]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 19_DISTILLED SPIRITS PLANTS--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart D_Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec.  19.58  Use of taxpaid distilled spirits to manufacture products unfit 

for beverage use.

    (a) General. Apothecaries, pharmacists, and manufacturers are not 
required to qualify as processors under 26 U.S.C. 5171 before 
manufacturing or compounding the following products, if the tax has been 
paid or determined on all of the distilled spirits contained therein:
    (1) Medicines, medicinal preparations, food products, flavors, 
flavoring extracts, and perfume, conforming to the standards for 
approval of nonbeverage drawback products found in Sec. Sec.  17.131-
17.137 of this chapter, whether or not drawback is actually claimed on 
those products. Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this section, a 
formula need not be submitted if drawback is not desired.
    (2) Patented, patent, and proprietary medicines that are unfit for 
use for beverage purposes.
    (3) Toilet, medicinal, and antiseptic preparations and solutions 
that are unfit for use for beverage purposes.
    (4) Laboratory reagents, stains, and dyes that are unfit for use for 
beverage purposes.
    (5) Flavoring extracts, syrups, and concentrates that are unfit for 
use for beverage purposes.
    (b) Exceptions; products classed as beverages. Products specified 
under part 17 of this chapter as being fit for beverage use are 
alcoholic beverages. Bitters, patent medicines, and similar alcoholic 
preparations which are fit for beverage purposes, although held out as 
having certain medicinal properties, are also alcoholic beverages. Such 
products are required to be manufactured on the bonded premises of a 
distilled spirits plant, and are subject to the provisions of this part.
    (c) Formulas and samples; when required. On request of the 
appropriate TTB officer, or when in doubt as to the classification of a 
product, the manufacturer shall submit to the appropriate TTB officer 
the formula for and

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a sample of the product for examination to verify the manufacturer's 
claim of exemption from qualification requirements.
    (d) Change of formula; when required. If the appropriate TTB officer 
finds at any time that any product manufactured under paragraph (a) of 
this section is being used for beverage purposes, or for mixing with 
beverage spirits other than by a processor, he or she shall notify the 
manufacturer to desist from manufacturing the product until the formula 
is changed to make the product not susceptible of beverage use and the 
change is approved by the appropriate TTB officer. (However, the 
provisions of this paragraph shall not prohibit such products, which are 
unfit for beverage use, from being used in small quantities for 
flavoring drinks at the time of serving for immediate consumption.) 
Where, pursuant to notice, the manufacturer does not desist, or the 
formula is not so modified as to make the product unsusceptible of 
beverage use, the manufacturer shall immediately qualify as a processor.

(Sec. 805, Pub. L. 96-39, 93 Stat. 275, 278 (26 U.S.C. 5002, 5171))

[T.D. ATF-379, 61 FR 31425, June 20, 1996]