The standard was read as a package rule
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The presentation was treated as evidence
A 30 mL amber bottle with a graduated pipette is not a beverage presentation, and the standard is applied to a formula on a form.
A small fill was treated as evidence
Median capacity here is 30 mL. A small container does not make a formula unfit for beverage purposes and a large one does not make it fit.
The word tincture was treated as a finding
Tincture of ginger has been found to be fit for beverage use and is disapproved for drawback. The name carries nothing.
A pharmacopoeia listing was treated as a finding
The three named disapprovals in that paragraph are all pharmacopoeia preparations, which is exactly why the exception list is informative.
A drawback approval was read as a permission to sell
It is approval to recover federal excise tax on distilled spirits used. What may be sold is governed elsewhere.
Or as a safety finding
It is neither. Unfit for beverage purposes says nothing about whether a product is safe, and fit for beverage use says nothing either.
The spirits provision was applied to an oil
An MCT blend contains no distilled spirits, so the question does not arise. One of the five leaves here sits outside the spine entirely.
And the scope was assumed
Whether a cannabis or CBD preparation falls within part 17 is not addressed on these pages and should not be inferred from their being written.
State law was left out
As it is in every property in this library, because it differs by state and a national catalog cannot speak to it.
A percentage was read into it
There is no number in the sentence. Unfit for beverage purposes is a finding rather than a calculation, so there is no strength to engineer towards.
The fix is to submit the formula
There is a named form in the regulation, which means there is a body with a view. Reasoning about the bottle is not a substitute for asking.