[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR73.260]

[Page 351]
 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 73_LISTING OF COLOR ADDITIVES EXEMPT FROM CERTIFICATION--Table of Contents
 
                             Subpart A_Foods
 
Sec.  73.260  Vegetable juice.

    (a) Identity. (1) The color additive vegetable juice is prepared 
either by expressing the juice from mature varieties of fresh, edible 
vegetables, or by the water infusion of the dried vegetable. The color 
additive may be concentrated or dried. The definition of vegetable juice 
in this paragraph is for the purpose of identity as a color additive 
only, and shall not be construed as a standard of identity under section 
401 of the act. However, where a standard of identity for a particular 
vegetable juice has been promulgated under section 401 of the act, it 
shall conform to such standard.
    (2) Color additive mixtures made with vegetable juice may contain as 
diluents only those substances listed in this subpart as safe and 
suitable in color additive mixtures for coloring foods.
    (b) Uses and restrictions. Vegetable juice may be safely used for 
the coloring of foods generally, in amounts consistent with good 
manufacturing practice, except that it may not be used to color foods 
for which standards of identity have been promulgated under section 401 
of the act, unless the use of added color is authorized by such 
standards.
    (c) Labeling. The color additive and any mixtures intended solely or 
in part for coloring purposes prepared therefrom shall bear, in addition 
to the other information required by the act, labeling in accordance 
with the provisions of Sec.  70.25 of this chapter.
    (d) Exemption from certification. Certification of this color 
additive is not necessary for the protection of the public health, and 
therefore batches thereof are exempt from the certification requirements 
of section 721(c) of the act.

[42 FR 15643, Mar. 22, 1977, as amended at 60 FR 52629, Oct. 10, 1995]