FDA Seeks Comments on Petition To Ban Potassium Perchlorate in Food Containers

The Food and Drug Administration is seeking comments on a petition to no longer allow for the use of potassium perchlorate as an additive in closure-sealing gaskets for food containers (here). The Society of the Plastics Industry submitted the petition, purporting that the substance is no longer put to that use, the FDA said. Comments on whether potassium perchlorate is still used by industry in closure-sealing gaskets for food containers, and should therefore still be allowed as an additive, are due Aug. 29.