NAC583.231. “Color additive” defined.

“Color additive” means a material which:

     1. Is a dye, pigment or other substance made by a process of synthesis or similar article, or extracted, isolated, or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity, from a vegetable, animal, mineral or other source; and

     2. When added or applied to a food, drug or cosmetic, or to the human body or any part thereof, is capable, alone or through a reaction with another substance, of imparting color thereto. The term does not include any material which the Secretary of Agriculture, by regulation, determines is used, or intended to be used, solely for a purpose or purposes other than coloring.

     [Bd. of Health, Meat Inspection Reg. Art. II § I part subsec. p, eff. 11-4-70; renumbered as § A part subsec. 16, 3-5-71]