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"What's under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Learn more about what's in these products, about potential health effects, and about safety and handling."

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These are substances used in food-contact articles, and include adhesives and components of coatings (Part 175), paper and paperboard components (Part 176), polymers (Part 177), and adjuvants and production aids (Part 178). In general, these are substances that may come into contact with food as part of packaging or processing equipment, but are not intended to be added directly to food.

The EAFUS list of substances contains ingredients added directly to food that FDA has either approved as food additives or listed or affirmed as GRAS. Nevertheless, it contains only a partial list of all food ingredients that may in fact be lawfully added to food, because under federal law some ingredients may be added to food under a Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) determination made independently from the FDA.

To find the most recently issued patent numbers of each patent type (i.e., the highest number issued or for which you can search within each patent type), go to ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/patdata and look at the most recent week's .rpt, .txt, or .zip files for a summary of the week's issue.

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