WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Food and Drug Administration has issued a proposed rule called: Ecoflora Cares; Filing of Color Additive Petition.

The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on March 4 by Grace R. Graham, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Legislation, and International Affairs.

Summary: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is announcing that we have filed a petition, submitted by Ecoflora Cares, c/o Exponent, Inc, proposing that we amend our color additive regulations to provide for the safe use of jagua (genipin-glycine) blue as a color additive in pet foods at levels consistent with good manufacturing practice.

For more information, contact Shayla West-Barnette, Office of Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Suppleme...