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CFSAN/Office of Food Additive Safety
March 30, 2000
Date: March 30, 2000
From: Program Specialist, Environmental Review Team (ERT)
Division of Product Manufacture and Use
Subject: Premarket Notification FCN No. 000040 - Polyphenylene Sulfide Polymers for use as a Component of Repeated Use Food Contact Articles
Notifier: Ticona
c/o Keller and Heckman
Washington, DC 20001
To: Division of Petition Control (HFS-215)
Attention: Julius Smith
Through: Team Leader, ERT
Attached is our Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the above cited Premarket Notification. The following environmental documents should be made public when this notification becomes effective.
1. This FONSI.
2. The petitioner's environmental assessment (EA) dated February 28, 2000.
Please let is know if there is any change in the identity or use of the food contact substance that would be inconsistent with the identity and use described in the FONSI.
Sylvia G. Matson
Premarket Notification FCN No. 000040, submitted by Ticona, c/o Keller and Heckman to provide for the safe use of polyphenylene sulfide polymers for use as components of repeated-use food contact articles.
The Environmental Review Team has determined that allowing this notification to become effective will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment and therefore will not require the preparation of an environmental impact statement.
This finding is based on the petitioner's environmental assessment, dated February 28, 2000, and on confidential market volume projections.
Prepared by: ___________________________________________ Date: March 30, 2000
Sylvia G. Matson, Program Specialist
Environmental Review Team
Division of Product Manufacture and Use
Office of Premarket Approval
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration
Approved by: __________________________________________ Date: March 30, 2000
Buzz L. Hoffmann, Ph.D., Team Leader
Environmental Review Team
Division of Product Manufacture and Use
Office of Premarket Approval
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug Administration
