Each panel below is a working miniature of a site that could run at this address: navigation, hero, product screen and proof numbers, followed by a plain note on how that business would position the name. All twenty stay on screen at all times; a lane simply marks its own. The domain sits in the browser bar of every one of them, whole and unbroken, because the name is the thing being sold.
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One Section In The Whole Code
Counting where the federal code says the name of this product
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one section50 titlesdeduped
See the count
The exact phrase appears
in exactly one section
of the entire Code of
Federal Regulations.
Fifty titles, every agency, every subject. Search the whole Code for the exact phrase pressure cooker and it comes back from one place, and the place is not about cooking.
eCFR SEARCH API, EXACT PHRASE, RESULTS DEDUPLICATED TO DISTINCT SECTIONS · RUN OCTOBER 5, 2026MEASURED HERE
"pressure cooker"Across all fifty titles. One section: 21 C.F.R. 175.300, Resinous and polymeric coatings.1 SECTION
"slow cooker"Across all fifty titles. Also checked: "Slow Cooker", "slow-cooker", "slowcooker".0
"rice cooker"Across all fifty titles. Also checked: "Rice Cooker", "rice-cooker", "ricecooker".0
"crock pot"One section, and it is not what a reader expects. Card 07.1 SECTION
the bare word "cooker"22 distinct sections, in titles 7, 9, 21, 27, 29 and 40. Mostly industrial food processing and one workplace standard. This is why no bare-token count is used as a headline here.22
THE METHOD, BECAUSE THE NUMBER DEPENDS ON ITEach phrase was enclosed in double quotation marks, because the index treats a token and its variants as different tokens and an unquoted search is not reproducible. Unquoted, the same two words return 21.QUOTED
AND THE FIELD THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN WRONGThe search API returns a total_count of 2 for the exact phrase. That field counts matching subdivisions and versions, not sections, and both records are the same section at two different effective dates. Every section figure on this page is deduplicated on title, part and section.NOT 2
NOTHING ON THIS PAGE IS LEGAL ADVICE, AND NOTHING HERE TELLS ANY BUSINESS WHETHER IT IS COVERED OR WHAT IT SHOULD DO. NO HEALTH OR SAFETY CLAIM IS MADE IN EITHER DIRECTION, AND NOTHING HERE DESCRIBES WHAT ANY STATE REQUIRES. CARD 10 SETS OUT WHAT DOES NOT FOLLOW FROM ANY COUNT ON THIS PAGE.WHAT THIS IS
1section in the whole Code
50titles searched
22sections holding the bare word
How they position itA buyer in this category has never seen the count. Publishing it with the method, and with the field that would have given the wrong answer, is what makes the page worth a bookmark rather than a glance.
02
And The Section Is About Coatings
Reading the heading and the opening sentence of the one section
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175.300resinouspolymeric
Read the opening
Resinous and polymeric
coatings may be safely
used as the food-contact
surface of articles.
The one section in the Code that says pressure cooker is not a cookware rule, an appliance rule or a safety rule. It is a rule about the film that sits between food and whatever is underneath it.
21 C.F.R. 175.300, HEADING AND OPENING SENTENCE, QUOTED WHOLE · eCFR FULL TEXT AT ITS SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 EDITION, READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
Resinous and polymeric coatings may be safely used as the food-contact surface of articles intended for use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food, in accordance with the following prescribed conditions.21 C.F.R. 175.300, OPENING SENTENCE, QUOTED WHOLE. THE SECTION HEADING IS "Resinous and polymeric coatings."
THE SHAPE OF THE SENTENCEIt is a permission, not a prohibition, and the permission is conditional: may be safely used, then in accordance with the following prescribed conditions. Everything after the opening sentence is those conditions.CONDITIONAL
NINE VERBSproducing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, holding. 9 gerunds, counted. One of them is preparing, which is the one a cooking appliance does.9 VERBS
WHAT THE SECTION IS ACTUALLY ABOUTThe word coating appears 95 times in it. The regulated object is the film. The vessel is only ever the thing the film is on, or the thing the test is run in.95
The words "may be safely used" are the regulation's own operative language and are quoted here as text. This page builds nothing on them and makes no claim, in either direction, about the safety of any coating, material, vessel or product.
9verbs in the permission clause
95uses of the word coating
1sentence of permission
How they position itThe heading is the whole surprise. A reader who came looking for an appliance rule finds a coatings rule, and that reframing is the thing this page can do that no summary does.
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Twenty-One Quarts, Specified To A Tenth Of An Inch
The one cooker the Code specifies, and what it is for
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21 quarts12.5 inches20 psi
Read the spec
Twenty-one quarts.
Twelve and a half inches.
Twenty pounds per square
inch. It is lab equipment.
The Code specifies a cooker with more precision than most catalogs manage. It gives a capacity, two interior dimensions and a pressure rating. Then it uses the thing to hold a test container.
21 C.F.R. 175.300, EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS, QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
Pressure cooker, 21-quart capacity with pressure gage, safety release, and removable rack, 12.5 inches inside diameter by 11 inches inside height, 20 pounds per square inch safe operating pressure.QUOTED WHOLE FROM THE EQUIPMENT PARAGRAPH. TWO TRANSCRIPTIONS, BOTH DISCLOSED: THE CODE PRINTS A MULTIPLICATION SIGN WHERE THIS PAGE SETS THE WORD "by", BECAUSE THIS PAGE IS PURE ASCII. THE SPELLING "gage" IS THE CODE'S OWN AND IS LEFT AS PRINTED.
WHAT IT IS FORIt is one item in a list of laboratory apparatus, beside an oven, an incubator and a water bath. The section uses it to hold a test container of water or heptane at a set temperature for a set time.APPARATUS
FOUR REQUIRED FITTINGSA pressure gage, a safety release, a removable rack, and a stated safe operating pressure. 4 requirements in one sentence, counted.4
AND WHAT IT IS NOT FORNothing in the section asks the cooker to cook anything. In one protocol it is explicitly reduced to a container: the Code says the cooker "is to serve only as a container" for a heptane-filled test package inside an incubator.ONLY A CONTAINER
The quotation above is reproduced exactly except for the two transcriptions named in it. Where this page sets the word "by", the Code prints a multiplication sign; where this page writes a temperature as "250 F", the Code prints a degree sign. Footnote 1 restates both.
21quart capacity, as specified
4things the spec requires it to have
20pounds per square inch
How they position itNobody expects the federal code to specify a cooker's interior dimensions. Printing the spec verbatim, with the transcription disclosed, is the single most quotable thing on this page.
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Twenty-Six Times, And Once Without The Adjective
Counting the word inside the one section that uses it
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27 total26 pressure1 bare
See the breakdown
The section says cooker
twenty-seven times.
Twenty-six of them carry
the word pressure.
Inside its one section the phrase is not rare at all. It is a workhorse. And the one time the adjective is dropped, the sentence is an instruction to the person running the test.
FULL TEXT OF 21 C.F.R. 175.300, PULLED AND COUNTED HERE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026MEASURED HERE
"cooker", any useIn 71,422 characters of the section, counted by a stated method.27
"pressure cooker"The phrase, exactly.26
the twenty-seventh"Close the cooker securely and start to heat over a suitable burner." The adjective is dropped once, in the middle of an instruction.1
"nonstick" and "non-stick"Zero each, in the one section of the Code that concerns coatings intended for repeated food contact.0
"skillet", "frying pan", "saucepan"Zero each.0
"slow cooker"Zero.0
"rice"Zero. Not the grain, not the appliance, nowhere in the section.0
THE METHODEvery tag replaced by one space, entities unescaped, whitespace runs collapsed to one, then counted. That yields 71,422 characters from an 87,222-byte source file. The byte figure and the character figure are different things and both are printed so neither is mistaken for the other.71,422
AND A COUNT THAT WAS CHECKED TWICEThe full text of all 22 sections containing the bare word was pulled and grepped for the phrase, case-insensitively, allowing a hyphen or space between the two words. Zero hits outside this one section.CHECKED
27uses of the word cooker
26of them are pressure cooker
0named pieces of cookware
How they position itThe reversal is the point: the phrase is vanishingly rare in the Code and extremely common inside the one place that has it. Both numbers on one card is the whole story.
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The Other Cooker In Title Twenty-One
The second and last place title 21 uses the word
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113.40low-acidequipment
Read the other one
Title twenty-one says
cooker in two sections.
The second one is about
industrial retorts.
If the food and drug title has a cooker rule, this is the closest thing to it. It is an equipment and procedures section for thermally processed low-acid foods in sealed containers, and the equipment is industrial.
eCFR SEARCH SCOPED TO TITLE 21, EXACT PHRASE, DEDUPLICATED · RUN OCTOBER 5, 2026MEASURED HERE
SECTION ONE OF TWO21 C.F.R. 175.300, Resinous and polymeric coatings. The subject of this page. Twenty-seven uses of the word, twenty-six of them the full phrase.175.300
SECTION TWO OF TWO21 C.F.R. 113.40, Equipment and procedures, inside part 113, which governs thermally processed low-acid foods packaged in hermetically sealed containers. The word appears there in its industrial sense.113.40
title 21, "pressure cooker"Deduplicated to distinct sections.1
title 21, "cooker"Deduplicated to distinct sections.2
title 16, "cooker"The Commission title. Zero.0
title 10, "cooker"The energy title. Zero.0
WHAT THIS CARD DOES NOT SAYIt does not say that part 113 is irrelevant to anything, and it does not characterize what part 113 requires of anybody. Part 113 was not read beyond locating the word. The card reports where the word is and stops.LOCATED ONLY
2sections of title 21 using the word
1of the two about coatings
113the part the other one is in
How they position itCompleteness is the credential. A page that says one section had better be able to show the reader the other near miss and say exactly how far it looked.
06
The Modern Vocabulary Is Not In The Code
Searching the Code for the words this category actually uses
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five zerosone hot platemeasured
See the zeros
Multicooker, air fryer,
electric kettle, deep fryer,
rice cooker, slow cooker.
Zero, all six.
The words a shopper would type, and a brand would print on a box, return nothing from the federal code. The one kitchen term that does appear is older than all of them.
eCFR SEARCH API, EXACT PHRASES, ALL FIFTY TITLES, DEDUPLICATED TO DISTINCT SECTIONS · RUN OCTOBER 5, 2026MEASURED HERE
"multicooker" and "multi-cooker"Both spellings. The format this domain names.0
"air fryer"The format that has sold the most units in this category in recent years.0
"electric kettle"Nothing.0
"deep fryer"Nothing.0
"rice cooker"Nothing.0
"slow cooker"Nothing, under that name. Under another name, once. Card 07.0
THE ONE KITCHEN TERM THAT IS THERE"hot plate" returns 9 distinct sections, across titles 10, 16, 20, 21 and others. One of those nine is 21 C.F.R. 175.300 itself, where the Code calls for a "nonsparking hot plate" as part of the test apparatus.9 SECTIONS
WHAT THAT PATTERN IS, AND IS NOTIt is a fact about vocabulary in a drafted text. It is not a finding about anybody's obligations, and nothing about coverage follows from the absence of a marketing word. Card 10 says so at length.VOCABULARY
EVERY FIGURE ON THIS CARD IS AN EXACT-PHRASE SEARCH OF THE ELECTRONIC CODE, DEDUPLICATED ON TITLE, PART AND SECTION, RUN ON THE DATE SHOWN. NO FIGURE HERE DESCRIBES ANY REQUIREMENT, AND NOTHING ON THIS PAGE IS LEGAL ADVICE.METHOD
6appliance terms returning zero
9sections using hot plate
2spellings checked for each
How they position itThis is the card a merchandiser screenshots. Six words from the category's own vocabulary, all returning nothing, with the method printed under them.
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Crock Pot, Once, In A Rule About Infant Bottles
The one place the Code names a slow cooker, under another name
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32 CFR 79.6one sectionbottles
Read the sentence
The Code says crock pot
in one section, and it is
a Defense regulation
about child development.
Search for the generic name and the Code is silent. Search for the name people actually say and it turns up exactly once, in a place that has nothing to do with selling, making or testing anything.
32 C.F.R. 79.6, QUOTED · eCFR FULL TEXT AT ITS SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 EDITION, READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
Infants are held for bottle-feeding, bottles are never propped, never heated in a crock pot or microwave, and infants are never put to sleep with a bottle.32 C.F.R. 79.6, QUOTED FROM THE SENTENCE IN WHICH THE WORDS APPEAR. THE CODE SETS THE WORDS LOWERCASE, AS THEY ARE SET HERE.
WHERE THAT ISTitle 32, National Defense, part 79. The provision concerns child development programs. It is the only place in the Code of Federal Regulations where those two words appear together.1 SECTION
WHY IT IS ON THIS PAGEBecause a page claiming the Code never mentions a slow cooker would be wrong. It mentions one, by the name everybody uses, in a sentence about warming a bottle. The unflattering version of our own finding goes on the card, not in a drawer.CORRECTION
AND WHAT IS NOT CLAIMEDNo business is named here or anywhere on this page. Those two words are on this card because the Code prints them, and part 79 was read only far enough to locate and quote the sentence.LOCATED ONLY
1section using the words
79the part it is in
32the title it is in
How they position itPublishing the one result that complicates your own headline is the fastest way to be believed about the other nineteen cards.
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A Toaster Oven, Once, As A Credit Union Premium
The only toaster oven in the Code, and where it sits
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12 CFR 707appendix Ba bonus
Read the clause
One toaster oven in the
whole Code. It is in a
sample advertisement for
opening a savings account.
The federal code does name a countertop cooking appliance. It does it in a model advertising clause written for credit unions, and it leaves the brand blank.
APPENDIX B TO 12 C.F.R. PART 707, MODEL CLAUSES AND SAMPLE FORMS, QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
... will receive a new (insert brand name) toaster-oven as a bonus when you open the account.APPENDIX B TO 12 C.F.R. PART 707, FROM A MODEL CLAUSE. OUR ELLIPSIS AT THE FRONT. THE CODE HYPHENATES IT AS "toaster-oven".
WHOSE RULE THIS ISTitle 12, Banks and Banking, chapter of the National Credit Union Administration, part 707, Truth in Savings. The appendix supplies model clauses and sample forms.TRUTH IN SAVINGS
IT IS AN APPENDIX, NOT A SECTIONStated precisely because the rest of this page counts sections. This occurrence is in Appendix B to the part and carries no section number, so it is reported as one appendix and is not added to any section count on this page.APPENDIX B
AND THE BRAND IS A BLANKThe Code writes (insert brand name) and declines to fill it in. This page names no business either, which is the same choice for a different reason.BLANK
1appendix using the words
707the part it is in
0brand names in the clause
How they position itA detail this odd, sourced and quoted, is the kind of thing a trade newsletter links to. The link is what the domain is actually for.
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Where The Words Mean Something Else
Four occurrences that are not about cookware at all
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a tractpipe platea toy rule
Read all four
The only frying pan in
the Code is a piece of
land in North Carolina,
open to hunting.
Search the Code for cookware words and most of what comes back is something else wearing the same name. Each of these was read in place rather than counted from a result list.
FOUR SECTIONS PULLED WHOLE AND READ IN PLACE · eCFR FULL TEXT, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 EDITION, READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
On the Frying Pan tracts, we also allow hunters to take feral hog, using only those weapons authorized for taking deer, whenever we open those tracts to hunting any game species with firearms.50 C.F.R. 32.52, TITLED "North Carolina", QUOTED. THE ONLY OCCURRENCE OF THE PHRASE IN THE CODE, AND IT IS A PLACE.
Blanking or blinding means the absolute closure of a pipe, line, or duct by the fastening of a solid plate (such as a spectacle blind or a skillet blind) that completely covers the bore ...29 C.F.R. 1910.146, QUOTED. OUR ELLIPSIS AT THE END. THE SAME DEFINITION APPEARS AT 29 C.F.R. 1926.1202. A SKILLET BLIND IS A PIPE PLATE.
Cook thoroughly. (A graphic illustration of a skillet shall be displayed next to the statement.)9 C.F.R. 381.125, QUOTED. THE SAME LANGUAGE APPEARS AT 9 C.F.R. 317.2. HERE THE SKILLET IS A PICTOGRAM ON A LABEL.
If not suitable for immersion in water, a toy cooking appliance (such as a corn popper, skillet, or candy-maker) or other article which may conceivably be immersed in water shall be marked with the statement: "DANGER - To prevent electric shock, do not immerse in water; wipe clean with damp cloth" or equivalent.16 C.F.R. 1505.3, QUOTED WHOLE. HERE THE WORDS MEAN EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAY, AND A REQUIREMENT IS ATTACHED. THE CODE PRINTS AN EM DASH AFTER "DANGER" WHERE THIS PAGE SETS A HYPHEN. THE SECTION CITATION LINE READS [38 FR 27032, Sept. 27, 1973, as amended at 42 FR 34280, July 5, 1977].
AND SO THE ONE RULE THAT NAMES ONE IS A TOY RULEOf every occurrence opened, the place where a federal rule names a cooking appliance as a cooking appliance and attaches a requirement to it is 16 C.F.R. 1505.3, in the regulations for electrically operated toys. The citation line carries 1973, amended 1977.SINCE 1973
WHY EACH ONE WAS OPENEDA search result is not a reading. Five sections contain "skillet", and three of the four senses on this card would have been counted as cookware by anyone working from the result list alone. The fourth is the only one that is.READ, NOT COUNTED
1section using frying pan
5sections using skillet
1973the toy rule citation year
How they position itEvery competitor in this space quotes a search result. A page that opened each section and reports what the word actually means there is a different class of asset.
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What We Will Not Conclude From That
The inference this page refuses, and the text that makes it false
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430.2430.32(j)2064(b)
Read the refusal
A word being absent from
the Code is a fact about
the Code. It is not a fact
about anybody's duties.
Nine cards of counting lead straight to one wrong conclusion, so it is refused here, in the middle of the page, with the federal text that makes it false quoted underneath.
THE REFUSAL, WITH THE PRIMARY TEXT THAT REQUIRES IT · 10 C.F.R. 430.2 AND 430.32, 15 U.S.C. 2064(b) · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026REFUSED
WE DO NOT SAY THAT NOTHING FEDERAL REACHES A COUNTERTOP COOKERThat sentence is false, and it was checked before this page was written rather than after. Three provisions are quoted below. None of them was found by searching for the word cooker, which is exactly the point.REFUSED
Conventional oven means a category of cooking products which is a household cooking appliance consisting of one or more compartments intended for the cooking or heating of food ... It does not include portable or countertop ovens which use electric resistance heating for the cooking or heating of food and are designed for an electrical supply of approximately 120 volts.10 C.F.R. 430.2, QUOTED. OUR ELLIPSIS IN THE MIDDLE. AN EXPRESS EXCLUSION IS A DRAFTING CHOICE ABOUT A NAMED THING, NOT AN ABSENCE.
Portable indoor conventional cooking top means a conventional cooking top designed - (1) For indoor use; and (2) To be moved from place to place.10 C.F.R. 430.2, QUOTED WHOLE. THE WORD PORTABLE RUNS BOTH WAYS IN THE SAME SECTION.
Gas portable indoor conventional cooking tops, manufactured on or after April 9, 2012, shall not be equipped with a constant burning pilot light.10 C.F.R. 430.32(j)(1)(ii), QUOTED WHOLE. A STANDARD, ON A PORTABLE APPLIANCE, SINCE 2012.
Every manufacturer ... and every distributor and retailer ... who obtains information which reasonably supports the conclusion that such product ... contains a defect which could create a substantial product hazard ... or creates an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death, shall immediately inform the Commission.15 U.S.C. 2064(b), QUOTED WITH OUR ELLIPSES. THIS DUTY RUNS WHETHER OR NOT ANY STANDARD EXISTS FOR THE PRODUCT.
THE FULL LIST OF WHAT IS REFUSED HEREThat any cooker, cookware or countertop appliance is unregulated, exempt or outside anything. That any specific product is or is not within any definition quoted. That a zero count means a gap in the law. That the drafters intended anything by a word they did not use. Every one of those is a conclusion this page does not reach, and card 20 lists the rest.CARD 20
AND HOW FAR THIS PAGE ACTUALLY LOOKEDOne section of title 21 in full, plus five sections and one appendix elsewhere opened and read in place, plus three provisions quoted on this card. That is not the whole federal code and this page does not pretend it is.NOT EXHAUSTIVE
3provisions that defeat the inference
2012the year of the pilot-light standard
0inferences drawn from a zero
How they position itThe refusal is the credential. Sitting it in the middle, with the text that defeats the easy conclusion quoted in full, is what separates a reference from a pitch.
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Nine Paragraphs, And One Object
The shape of the section, and what it is a section about
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(a) to (i)coating x951977
See the map
Nine paragraphs. One of
them is tables, one is
analytical methods, one is
the equipment list.
Mapped end to end, the section is a permission followed by a test. Nothing in it describes a vessel except as the thing a film sits on or the thing a test is run in.
21 C.F.R. 175.300, PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE, MAPPED FROM THE FULL TEXT · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
(a) WHAT A COATING HAS TO BEApplied as a continuous film or enamel over a metal substrate, or intended for repeated food-contact use on any suitable substrate. Then three ways it can be characterized.FORM
(b) WHAT IT MAY BE MADE FROMThree sources of optional substances, each one a cross-reference rather than a list of chemicals.SOURCES
(c) THE NUMERIC LIMITChloroform-soluble extractives, corrected for zinc extractives as zinc oleate, not to exceed 0.5 milligram per square inch from a coating for a one-time-use container of not more than 1 gallon. This is the only place in the section where a quantity is set.0.5 MG/SQ IN
(d) TABLESTable 1, types of food. Table 2, conditions of use. Both are lane four of this page.TWO TABLES
(e) ANALYTICAL METHODSHow to pick the extraction condition, and then how to run it. Seventeen protocols.17 PROTOCOLS
(f) EQUIPMENT AND REAGENTSThe paragraph that specifies the cooker. Card 03.THE COOKER
(g), (h) AND (i)(g) is a requirement about cleansing before first use, quoted on card 13. (h) and (i) are cross-references to other provisions for two named substance families. Neither (h) nor (i) was read beyond locating it, and this page characterizes neither.LOCATED ONLY
The section's source note is printed as [42 FR 14534, Mar. 15, 1977], and an editorial note directs the reader to the List of CFR Sections Affected for later citations. Reported as printed. This page draws no conclusion about what has or has not changed since that date.
9top-level paragraphs
95uses of the word coating
1977the year in the source note
How they position itA structural map is what a reader keeps. It also makes every other card on the page checkable against the thing it came from.
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Nine Verbs Where The Statute Has Five
Comparing the regulation's reach against the statute's definition
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statute 5rule 9preparing
Compare them
The statute says five
verbs. The regulation says
nine. One of the four
added is preparing.
The statutory definition and the regulation that implements it do not list the same activities. The statute's five sit entirely inside the regulation's nine, and the regulation adds the verb a cooking appliance performs.
21 U.S.C. 348(h)(6) FROM THE 2024 EDITION OF THE U.S. CODE ON govinfo, AND 21 C.F.R. 175.300 OPENING SENTENCE · BOTH READ OCTOBER 5, 2026TWO TEXTS, COMPARED
In this section, the term "food contact substance" means any substance intended for use as a component of materials used in manufacturing, packing, packaging, transporting, or holding food if such use is not intended to have any technical effect in such food.21 U.S.C. 348(h)(6), QUOTED WHOLE. 5 GERUNDS, COUNTED.
... articles intended for use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food ...21 C.F.R. 175.300, FROM THE OPENING SENTENCE QUOTED WHOLE ON CARD 02. OUR ELLIPSES. 9 GERUNDS, COUNTED.
THE SET RELATIONAll 5 of the statute's gerunds appear in the regulation. None of the regulation's nine is missing from it the other way. The statute's list is a strict subset.SUBSET
THE FOUR THE REGULATION ADDSproducing, processing, preparing, treating. Preparing is the one that describes what a cooking appliance does to food, and it is in the regulation and not in the statutory definition.PREPARING
WHAT THIS CARD DOES NOT SAYIt does not say the regulation exceeds the statute, and it does not say the difference was intended or unintended. Section 348 has other operative subsections that were not read for this comparison, and the page draws no legal conclusion from a word list.NO CONCLUSION
5gerunds in the statute
9gerunds in the regulation
4the regulation adds
How they position itTwo texts side by side with their verbs counted is the kind of thing a compliance reader forwards to a colleague. Nobody else has set them next to each other.
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Repeated Food-Contact Use
The clause in which a cooking vessel's lining actually sits
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(a) branch twobarriercleansed
Read the clause
A functional barrier
between the food and the
substrate, intended for
repeated food-contact use.
Paragraph (a) has two branches. The first is a can lining over metal. The second is written for something used again and again, which is the branch a pot or a cooking insert lives in.
21 C.F.R. 175.300(a) AND (g), QUOTED · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
The coating is applied as a continuous film or enamel over a metal substrate, or the coating is intended for repeated food-contact use and is applied to any suitable substrate as a continuous film or enamel that serves as a functional barrier between the food and the substrate.21 C.F.R. 175.300(a), FIRST SENTENCE, QUOTED WHOLE.
In accordance with good manufacturing practice, finished coatings intended for repeated food-contact use shall be thoroughly cleansed prior to their first use in contact with food.21 C.F.R. 175.300(g), QUOTED WHOLE. THE OPENING WORDS ARE THE REGULATION'S OWN AND NOTHING ON THIS PAGE IS BUILT ON THEM.
BRANCH ONEA continuous film or enamel over a metal substrate. The substrate is named, and so the branch is about a particular construction.OVER METAL
BRANCH TWOIntended for repeated food-contact use, on any suitable substrate, serving as a functional barrier. The substrate is left open and the test is what the film does, not what it sits on.ANY SUBSTRATE
AND THE ONE DUTY ATTACHED TO BRANCH TWOParagraph (g) applies only to coatings intended for repeated food-contact use, and it requires thorough cleansing before first contact with food. It is the single most specific obligation in the section, and it is about washing.BEFORE FIRST USE
This card locates a clause. It does not say that any particular product, lining, insert or vessel is or is not within it, and nothing here is advice to anyone about anything.
2branches in paragraph (a)
1of them for repeated use
0vessels named in either
How they position itThis is the clause the category's own engineers care about and it is almost never quoted. Owning the page that quotes it is worth more than the domain costs.
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Three Ways To Characterize A Coating
How the regulation sorts the thing it permits
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oxidationcross-linkingprepolymer
Read the three
Cured by oxidation.
Cured without it. Or made
from substances already
polymerized before use.
Having described the form, the regulation sorts by chemistry in three clauses, and every one of the three is about how the film came to be a film rather than what it is made of.
21 C.F.R. 175.300(a)(1) THROUGH (3) AND (b)(1) THROUGH (3), QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
(1) Coatings cured by oxidation. (2) Coatings cured by polymerization, condensation, and/or cross-linking without oxidation. (3) Coatings prepared from prepolymerized substances.21 C.F.R. 175.300(a)(1) THROUGH (3), QUOTED WHOLE. THE WHOLE OF THE CHARACTERIZATION LIST IS THESE THREE CLAUSES.
WHAT THE THREE SORT ONNot the chemical family and not the use. All three describe how the film was formed: with oxygen, without it, or already formed before it arrived. A coating is characterized by one or more of them, so the three are not exclusive.ONE OR MORE
The coatings are formulated from optional substances that may include: (1) Substances generally recognized as safe in food. (2) Substances the use of which is permitted by regulations in this part or which are permitted by prior sanction or approval ... (3) Any substance employed in the production of resinous and polymeric coatings that is the subject of a regulation in subchapter B of this chapter ...21 C.F.R. 175.300(b), QUOTED WITH OUR ELLIPSES.
AND WHAT PARAGRAPH (b) IS NOTIt is not a list of chemicals. All three sources are cross-references to permissions granted somewhere else, including the category of substances permitted by prior sanction or approval. The section's own substance lists sit further down, under paragraph (b)(3).CROSS-REFERENCES
NO SUBSTANCE IS DISCUSSED ON THIS PAGENot one. The quotations above are structural, and this page makes no statement about any named or unnamed substance, in either direction, and none about any material's behavior in use.STRUCTURE ONLY
3characterizations in paragraph (a)
3sources in paragraph (b)
1of the three without oxidation
How they position itThe category's product pages talk about materials. This page talks about how the federal text sorts them, which is the one angle nobody in the category has taken.
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The Same Term, Defined Twice In One Subsection
Two definitions of food contact substance, nine words apart in effect
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One subsection defines the
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The statute's general definition reaches any substance used as a component of food-contact materials. Inside the notification machinery of the same subsection, the term narrows to a single filer's substance and expressly excludes an identical one from anyone else.
21 U.S.C. 348(h), 2024 EDITION OF THE U.S. CODE ON govinfo, AND THE eCFR TITLE 21 PART STRUCTURE · BOTH READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
In this section, the term "food contact substance" means any substance intended for use as a component of materials used in manufacturing, packing, packaging, transporting, or holding food if such use is not intended to have any technical effect in such food.21 U.S.C. 348(h)(6), QUOTED WHOLE. THE GENERAL DEFINITION.
... the term "food contact substance" means the substance that is the subject of a notification submitted under paragraph (1), and does not include a similar or identical substance manufactured or prepared by a person other than the manufacturer identified in the notification.21 U.S.C. 348(h), FROM THE NOTIFICATION PROVISIONS. OUR ELLIPSIS AT THE FRONT. THE NARROW USE.
WHY BOTH ARE HEREA reader who quotes only the general definition will describe a reach the notification provisions do not have, and a reader who quotes only the narrow one will describe a scope the statute does not set. Both are printed because neither alone is the subsection.BOTH
THE CLOCK IN THE SAME SUBSECTIONA notification becomes effective 120 days after receipt unless the Secretary makes a determination within that period. The number is quoted from the statute and nothing is said here about how the program runs.120 DAYS
AND WHERE 175.300 SITSSix consecutive parts carry the group heading, each named in the Code: 174 General, 175 Adhesives and Components of Coatings, 176 Paper and Paperboard Components, 177 Polymers, 178 Adjuvants, Production Aids, and Sanitizers, and 179 Irradiation. The one section in the Code that says pressure cooker is in the second of the six.6 PARTS
2definitions in one subsection
6parts in the group this sits in
120days in the notification clock
How they position itTwo definitions of one term, in one subsection, with the clock between them. A reader who finds this once comes back to the address that had it.
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Eight Conditions, Graded By Heat Alone
Table 2, and the single variable it sorts on
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Condition A is high
temperature heat-sterilized,
over two hundred and
twelve degrees Fahrenheit.
Table 2 sorts every coating test into eight lettered conditions. Not by product, not by material, not by market. By what happens to the food in the container, and that is almost entirely a question of temperature.
21 C.F.R. 175.300(d), TABLE 2, CONDITION HEADINGS QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
A. High temperature heat-sterilized (e.g., over 212 F)Water at 250 F for 2 hr. The hottest condition in the table, and the only one whose heading carries a number.250 F, 2 HR
B. Boiling water-sterilizedWater at 212 F for 30 min.212 F, 30 MIN
C. Hot filled or pasteurized above 150 FFill boiling, cool to 100 F.FILL BOILING
D. Hot filled or pasteurized below 150 FWater at 150 F for 2 hr.150 F, 2 HR
E. Room temperature filled and stored (no thermal treatment in the container)Water at 120 F for 24 hr.120 F, 24 HR
F. Refrigerated storage (no thermal treatment in the container)Water at 70 F for 48 hr.70 F, 48 HR
G. Frozen storage (no thermal treatment in the container)Water at 70 F for 24 hr.70 F, 24 HR
H. Frozen storage: Ready-prepared foods intended to be reheated in container at time of useWater at 212 F for 30 min, and the only heading in the table that describes a thing the consumer does rather than a thing the packer does.REHEATED
Condition headings are quoted whole. The Code prints a degree sign where this page writes "212 F"; that transcription is disclosed at card 03 and in footnote 1. Three of the eight headings carry the phrase "no thermal treatment in the container", which is the axis stated in the negative.
8lettered conditions
212the Fahrenheit figure in condition A
1variable they sort on
How they position itEight conditions, one axis, every heading quoted. This is the reference table the category does not have anywhere else on the open web.
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Eight Types Of Food, And One Needs No Test
Table 1, and the only entry that exits the scheme
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Type eight is dry solids,
and the Code answers it
in a parenthesis: no
end test required.
Table 1 sorts food into eight numbered types by acidity, fat and form. Seven of the eight route into a test. The eighth is disposed of in four words.
21 C.F.R. 175.300(d), TABLE 1, TYPES OF FOOD, QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
I. Nonacid (pH above 5.0), aqueous products; may contain salt or sugar or both, and including oil-in-water emulsions of low- or high-fat content. II. Acidic (pH 5.0 or below), aqueous products ... III. Aqueous, acid or nonacid products containing free oil or fat ... IV. Dairy products and modifications: A. Water-in-oil emulsion, high- or low-fat. B. Oil-in-water emulsion, high- or low-fat. V. Low moisture fats and oils. VI. Beverages: A. Containing alcohol. B. Nonalcoholic. VII. Bakery products. VIII. Dry solids (no end test required).21 C.F.R. 175.300(d), TABLE 1, QUOTED WITH OUR ELLIPSES IN TYPES II AND III. TYPE VIII IS QUOTED WHOLE, PARENTHESIS INCLUDED.
WHAT THE EIGHT SORT ONpH, water, free oil or fat, and emulsion direction. 8 numbered types, and the only two that split into A and B are dairy and beverages, each splitting on a different thing: dairy on which way the emulsion runs, beverages on alcohol.8 TYPES
AND THE ONE THAT LEAVESType VIII is 4 words of description and a four-word parenthesis that ends the inquiry: no end test required. A dry solid is the one food the scheme declines to test against a coating.NO END TEST
WHY THAT MATTERS TO THE SHAPE OF THE TABLETable 2 routes each lettered condition to the food types it applies to, and it routes seven numbers and four letter-suffixed sub-types. Type VIII is reachable in the scheme and exits it at the same moment.SEVEN ROUTED
8numbered food types
2types that split in two
4words that end type eight
How they position itA four-word parenthesis that disposes of an entire food category is exactly the detail that makes a reader trust the other nineteen cards.
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Seventeen Protocols, Each A Liquid, A Temperature And A Time
The full extraction list, counted and read
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Water, heptane, and eight
percent alcohol. Seventeen
protocols. Every one of
them names a simulation.
Paragraph (e) sets out the extraction conditions one at a time. Each is a liquid at a stated temperature for a stated time, and each says in words what it is standing in for.
21 C.F.R. 175.300(e), EXPOSURE CONDITIONS (i) THROUGH (xvii), HEADINGS QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
Water (250 F for 2 hours), simulating high-temperature heat sterilizationProtocol (i). The container is covered with clean aluminum foil and placed on a rack in a pressure cooker.(i)
Water (212 F for 30 minutes), simulating boiling water sterilizationProtocol (ii). Same vessel, vent left open, operated at atmospheric pressure.(ii)
Water, protocols (iii) through (viii)Hot fill above and below 150 F, room temperature filling and storage, refrigerated storage, frozen storage, and frozen foods reheated in the container.6 MORE
Heptane, protocols (ix) through (xiv)The same ladder again, run with a hydrocarbon instead of water, each one labeled for fatty foods only.6
Alcohol, 8 percent, protocols (xv) through (xvii)Hot filled or pasteurized below 150 F, room-temperature filled and stored, and refrigerated storage, each one labeled for alcoholic beverages.3
THE COUNT8 water, 6 heptane, 3 alcohol. 17 protocols, counted from the roman numerals in the paragraph.17
THE VESSEL IN THE FIRST TWOBoth of the hottest water protocols put the test container on a rack inside the pressure cooker. In the first, the vent is closed and pressure is brought to 15 pounds per square inch. In the second, the vent is left open.15 PSI
AND WHERE THE COOKER STOPS BEING A COOKERIn the heptane protocols the cooker is preheated in an incubator and the Code says it is to serve only as a container. The same vessel, two paragraphs apart, is first a pressure vessel and then a box.ONLY A CONTAINER
17numbered protocols
3extraction liquids
8the alcohol percentage
How they position itSeventeen protocols with their stated simulations is a working reference. The cooker appearing twice, in two different roles, is the detail that makes it memorable.
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Heptane Stands In For Fat, Divided By Five
Two footnotes to one table, and what they do
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Heptane extractivity results
must be divided by a factor
of five in arriving at the
extractivity for a food.
The table carries two footnotes. One is an arithmetic instruction. The other removes an entire construction from the reach of one liquid, and it does it in eleven words.
21 C.F.R. 175.300(d), TABLE 2, FOOTNOTES 1 AND 2, QUOTED WHOLE · READ OCTOBER 5, 2026PRIMARY SOURCE
Heptane extractant not to be used on wax-lined containers.FOOTNOTE 1 TO TABLE 2, QUOTED WHOLE. 11 WORDS, COUNTED.
Heptane extractivity results must be divided by a factor of five in arriving at the extractivity for a food product.FOOTNOTE 2 TO TABLE 2, QUOTED WHOLE.
WHAT FOOTNOTE 2 ISAn arithmetic instruction, in the Code, in the middle of a table. A measured number is divided by 5 before it is used. The regulation states the operation and does not state a derivation, and this page does not supply one.DIVIDE BY 5
WHAT FOOTNOTE 1 ISA construction excluded from one liquid. Eleven words remove wax-lined containers from the heptane branch of the whole table.WAX-LINED OUT
AND WHY HEPTANE IS THERE AT ALLThe protocol headings say it: each heptane condition is labeled for fatty foods only, and the Code also calls for it to be redistilled and reagent-grade, preheated in a flask on a water bath or a nonsparking hot plate in a well-ventilated hood.FATTY FOODS ONLY
This card reports two footnotes and the operation one of them prescribes. It makes no claim about what any extraction result means, about any substance, or about any product, in either direction.
5the divisor in footnote two
2footnotes to table 2
11words in footnote one
How they position itA divisor written into a federal table is the single most forwardable fact in this material. The page that quotes it owns the search for it.
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What This Page Will Not Say
The full refusal list, published so it can be checked
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A page built on counting is a page that can mislead by omission. The list below is published in full so a reader can hold every other card against it.
THE REFUSALS, IN FULL · HOLD EVERY OTHER CARD AGAINST THIS ONEREFUSED
THAT ANYTHING IS UNREGULATEDNot a cooker, not cookware, not a countertop appliance, not a coating. Not unregulated, not exempt, not uncovered, not outside or beyond anything. Card 10 quotes the federal text that makes that conclusion false.REFUSED
THAT A ZERO COUNT MEANS A GAP IN THE LAWA word being absent from a drafted text is a fact about the text. Nothing about anyone's obligations follows from it.REFUSED
THAT ANY REAL PRODUCT IS INSIDE OR OUTSIDE ANY DEFINITION QUOTEDNo product, lining, insert, vessel or material is classified anywhere on this page.REFUSED
ANY HEALTH, SAFETY, EXPOSURE OR ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMIn either direction. Not that any coating or material is safe, not that any is unsafe, not that anything does or does not move from a film into food. The words "may be safely used" on card 02 are the regulation's own and nothing here is built on them.REFUSED
ANY ADVICE TO ANYBODYNot to a brand, a manufacturer, an importer, a marketplace or a buyer. Nothing here tells anyone whether they are covered or what to do.REFUSED
ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT ANY STATE OR LOCALITY REQUIRESIn either direction. No State or local instrument was read, so none is characterized.REFUSED
ANY POSITION ON THE POLICYNot that the eight conditions are the right eight, not that the divisor is the right divisor, not that any limit is appropriate, and no account of why the Code uses the words it uses or omits the ones it omits.REFUSED
ANY BARE-TOKEN COUNT AS A HEADLINEThe bare word cooker returns 22 distinct sections. Only exact-phrase counts, deduplicated on title, part and section, are used for any claim here, and the raw total_count field is never reported as a section count.REFUSED
ANY HYPHENATION CLAIM FROM A SEARCHThe index normalizes case and hyphens. Every hyphenation statement here came from a full-text read, not from a result list.REFUSED
ANY CHARACTERIZATION OF WHAT WAS NOT READPart 113, paragraphs (h) and (i) of the one section, and part 79 beyond one sentence, were located and not read. They are named as located, and nothing is said about what any of them requires.REFUSED
ANY BUSINESS NAMEDNone, anywhere. The two words on card 07 and the blank on card 08 are the Code's own words and the Code's own blank.REFUSED
AND THAT THIS IS COMPLETEHold all 20 cards against this list. 1 section of title 21 was read in full. Five sections and one appendix elsewhere were opened and read in place, and three further provisions are quoted on card 10. That is not the Code of Federal Regulations and this page does not pretend it is.NOT COMPLETE
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1section read in full
0claims about any product
How they position itThe refusal list is the asset. It is the thing a serious buyer reads first, and it is the reason the rest of the page is worth believing.