---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 172.806"
title: "21"
number: "172.806"
heading: "Azodicarbonamide."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/172.806"
---

# §172.806. Azodicarbonamide.


The food additive azodicarbonamide may be safely used in food in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:

- (a) **It is used or intended for use—**
  - (1) As an aging and bleaching ingredient in cereal flour in an amount not to exceed 2.05 grams per 100 pounds of flour (0.0045 percent; 45 parts per million).
  - (2) As a dough conditioner in bread baking in a total amount not to exceed 0.0045 percent (45 parts per million) by weight of the flour used, including any quantity of azodicarbonamide added to flour in accordance with [paragraph (a)(1)](#a-1) of this section.
- (b) **To assure safe use of the additive—**
  - (1) The label and labeling of the additive and any intermediate premix prepared therefrom shall bear, in addition to the other information required by the Act, the following:
    - (i) **The name of the additive.**
    - (ii) **A statement of the concentration or the strength of the additive in any intermediate premixes.**
  - (2) The label or labeling of the food additive shall also bear adequate directions for use.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 341, 342, 348, 371, 379e.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 14491, Mar. 15, 1977, unless otherwise noted.