SECTIONS 38924-38926.5 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 38924-38926.5

38924. The director shall adopt regulations providing for the
healthfulness and standard of purity of products resembling milk
products. The regulations shall be those reasonably necessary to
ensure that the products are safe for human consumption under the
circumstances under which they are likely to be offered for sale and
consumed. The standards of purity, including bacterial standards,
shall not be less than those of the milk products imitated or
substituted.

38925. When the use of market milk or any derivative or component
of market milk is required in any milk product, any fluid milk, fluid
skim milk, fluid cream, milk fat or milk solids used in an imitation
milk product imitating the milk product shall be market milk.

38926. Nondairy frozen dessert shall comply with the following
standards:
(a) The product shall contain not less than one-half of 1 percent
of edible oil or fat other than milk fat.
(b) The product shall contain 1.3 pounds of food solids per gallon
at the time of sale to the consumer.
(c) The product may contain harmless edible stabilizers and
emulsifiers as specified in Title 21 of the Code of Federal
Regulations.
(d) The product may contain nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners.
(e) The product may contain fruit or fruit juices, nut meats,
harmless flavoring, and harmless coloring.
(f) The product shall not contain more than 75,000 bacteria or 10
coliform bacteria per gram.

38926.5. Nondairy frozen dessert mix is a product in a final, dry,
or concentrated form used in the manufacture of nondairy frozen
dessert. It shall comply with all the requirements of nondairy frozen
dessert. It shall have been pasteurized or otherwise subjected to a
process that has been proven, to the satisfaction of the director, to
be equally effective.