---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 570.260"
title: "21"
number: "570.260"
heading: "Steps you may take before FDA responds to your GRAS notice."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/570.260"
---

# §570.260. Steps you may take before FDA responds to your GRAS notice.

- (a) You may submit a timely amendment to your filed GRAS notice, to update your GRAS notice or in response to a question from us, before we respond to your notice by letter in accordance with [§ 570.265(b)(1)](/cfr/21/570.265.md?p=b-1) or cease to evaluate your notice in accordance with [§ 570.265(b)(3)](/cfr/21/570.265.md?p=b-3).
- (b) At any time before we respond to your notice by letter in accordance with [§ 570.265(b)(1)](/cfr/21/570.265.md?p=b-1), you may request in writing that we cease to evaluate your GRAS notice. Your request does not preclude you from submitting a future GRAS notice in accordance with this subpart with respect to the notified substance.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 81 FR 55052, Aug. 17, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 341, 342, 346a, 348, 371.

### Source

Source: 41 FR 38644, Sept. 10, 1976, unless otherwise noted.