---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 573.440"
title: "21"
number: "573.440"
heading: "Ethylene dichloride."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/573.440"
---

# §573.440. Ethylene dichloride.


The food additive ethylene dichloride may be safely used in the manufacture of animal feeds in accordance with the following prescribed conditions:

- (a) **It is used as a solvent in the extraction processing of animal byproducts for use in animal feeds.**
- (b) The maximum quantity of the additive permitted to remain in or on the extracted byproducts shall not exceed 300 parts per million.
- (c) The extracted animal byproduct is added as a source of protein to a total ration at levels consistent with good feeding practices, but in no event at levels exceeding 13 percent of the total ration.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 342, 348.

### Source

Source: 41 FR 38652, Sept. 10, 1976, unless otherwise noted.