CFR > Title 21 - Food and Drugs > CHAPTER I—FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES > SUBCHAPTER B—FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION (parts 100 to 191) > PART 173—SECONDARY DIRECT FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED IN FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION > SUBPART A—Polymer Substances and Polymer Adjuvants for Food Treatment (§173.5 to §173.75) > 173.75—Sorbitan monooleate.

173.75—Sorbitan monooleate.

Sorbitan monooleate may be safely used in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:
(a) The additive is produced by the esterification of sorbitol with commercial oleic acid.
(b) It meets the following specifications:
(1) Saponification number, 145-160.
(2) Hydroxyl number, 193-210.
(c) The additive is used or intended for use as follows:
(1) As an emulsifier in polymer dispersions that are used in the clarification of cane or beet sugar juice or liquor in an amount not to exceed 7.5 percent by weight in the final polymer dispersion.
(2) The additive is used in an amount not to exceed 0.70 part per million in sugar juice and 1.4 parts per million in sugar liquor.

Code of Federal Regulations

[51 FR 11720, Apr. 7, 1986]