California

Food and Agricultural Code - FAC

9,659 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 34593 — Market milk or the fluid derivative of market milk which is used in the preparation of milk shakes or other mixed milk drinks shall be dispensed or poured from standard milk bottles or single service
• § 34594 — Homogenized market milk may be sold and served from and by the use of a milk-dispensing device which has been approved for such use by the director.
• § 34595 — Homogenized market milk, which is served from a milk-dispensing device that has been approved for that use by the director, shall be dispensed directly from the dispensing device into the glass or oth
• § 34596 — The gift, sale, loan, or furnishing in any manner of any milk-dispensing device is subject to Article 4 (commencing with Section 61371) of Chapter 1 of, and Article 9 (commencing with Section 6204l) o
• § 34621 — Every restaurant, school, hospital, soda fountain, or other place where food or drink is served to the public, which sells milk, cream, ice cream, ice milk, buttermilk, or any combination of them for
• § 34622 — Every container of milk, cream, or any product of milk or cream which is delivered to the consumer by any retailer or distributor and which is to be returned to such retailer or distributor shall be r
• § 34623 — Every container, except a single service container, of any kind in which milk or any product of milk is kept, stored, transported, or delivered, shall be sound, smooth, free from rust or open seams, a
• § 34624 — Any container, including any ice cream cabinet, which is commonly used or intended for the reception, storage, or delivery of milk, cream, or any product of milk or cream shall be used exclusively for
• § 34625 — Any empty container which is delivered to any producer, manufacturer, retailer, or distributor for the reception of milk or any product of milk shall be kept in a clean, sanitary, and sterile conditio
• § 34626 — Every receptacle, except a single service container, which is used to contain market milk, skim milk, buttermilk, or cultured buttermilk for sale or disposal to the retail trade, shall be properly was
• § 34627 — A single service container shall be made of sanitary material, in a sanitary manner, and shall be kept in a sanitary condition free from contamination until it is actually filled with milk, skim milk,
• § 34628 — Market milk, skim milk, buttermilk, or cultured buttermilk for sale or disposal to the retail trade shall not be transferred from one receptacle to another upon any highway, any street or sidewalk, or
• § 34651 — It is unlawful for any person to use the words “Registered in California” or the abbreviation “Reg.
• § 34652 — It is unlawful for any person without the written consent which is provided for in Section 34562, except the registrant of the brand and the members of any association which is the registrant, to use
• § 34653 — It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following: (a) Erase, obliterate, cover up, or conceal any brand without first notifying the director and receiving his approval.
• § 34654 — It is unlawful for any common carrier or private carrier for hire, except those which are engaged in transporting milk, cream, and containers of milk and cream to and from dairy farms, to receive or t
• § 34655 — A consignee shall not accept or receive any empty container, cabinet, or other equipment which he is not authorized to use.
• § 34681 — Any container which is found to have been used in violation of the requirements of this code shall be condemned and marked with the word “condemned” in any appropriate manner.
• § 34801 — Every carrier of milk, cream, or any product of milk, whether a producer, gratuitous private carrier, private carrier for hire, or common carrier, shall maintain every conveyance which it uses in tran
• § 34802 — Every conveyance, while transporting milk or cream or any clean empty container which is intended for milk or cream, and any shipping platform or premises where any such container is held while waitin
• § 34803 — Milk, cream, or any product of milk or cream shall not be transported in connection with, or close to, any other commodity from which it may absorb any foreign flavor or which may contaminate it.
• § 34804 — Every milk or cream can or other shipping container for any product of milk shall be handled carefully and, while it contains milk, cream, or other product of milk, shall be kept right end up.
• § 34805 — Nothing herein shall be construed to derogate from any powers or authority of the Public Utilities Commission of the state.
• § 34806 — A carrier of milk, cream, or any product of milk, whether a gratuitous private carrier, private carrier for hire, or common carrier, shall not receive or transport any milk, cream, or product of milk
• § 34951 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 34952 — “Milk products plant license” means a license which is issued by the director pursuant to Section 35015 for a milk products plant.
• § 34981 — Every license which is issued pursuant to this chapter, while in force, shall be kept conspicuously displayed in the place of business of the party to whom it has been issued.
• § 35 — “Secretary” means the Secretary of Food and Agriculture.
• § 35011 — A person shall not engage in any of the following businesses unless he has obtained a license from the director for each separate milk products plant or place of business: (a) Dealing in, receiving, m
• § 35012 — An application for a milk products plant license shall be made on a form which is prescribed by the director.
• § 35013 — Each application shall be accompanied by a fee in an amount which is established for the particular license by Section 35221.
• § 35014 — Upon receipt of an application for a milk products plant license, the director shall investigate the equipment and the sanitary condition of the milk products plant for which the application for a lic
• § 35015 — If the condition of the milk products plant is found to be satisfactory, a milk products plant license shall be issued by the director to the applicant.
• § 35016 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any hotel, restaurant, food facility, boardinghouse, hospital, or other concern or agency that manufactures a product of milk for the use of, or purchase by,
• § 35017 — This article does not apply to any of the following: (a) Any private home that is manufacturing for its own use.
• § 35018 — Every milk products plant license expires at the end of each calendar year, but shall remain in force during the month of January of the next succeeding year or such part of the month as may be necess
• § 35019 — Any license may be renewed each successive year, if the plant for which a previous license was issued and the business of such plant has been conducted in accordance with the requirements of this divi
• § 35041 — A person shall not engage in the business of manufacturing any diabetic or dietetic frozen milk product or mix unless, in addition to a milk products license, such person has obtained and holds a diab
• § 35042 — Each application for a license to engage in the business of manufacturing any diabetic or dietetic frozen milk product or mix shall be accompanied by a statement which describes the method and manner
• § 35071 — A person shall not engage in the business of manufacturing, preparing, or processing modified UHT milk, modified UHT cream or modified milk unless, in addition to the milk products plant license, the
• § 35072 — Upon receipt of an application for a modified milk license, modified UHT milk license, or modified UHT cream license, the director shall investigate the equipment and sanitary conditions of the place
• § 35101 — It is unlawful for any person, unless he has a license to do so, to engage in the business of manufacturing, freezing, or processing any of the following: (a) Oleomargarine, or margarine, colored oleo
• § 35102 — A person shall first apply each year to the director for a license to engage in any business or occupation for which a license is required by Section 35101.
• § 35103 — Every license which is issued pursuant to Section 35102 expires on June 30th of each year, and may be issued in periods of one year.
• § 35131 — A person shall not engage in the business of cutting and wrapping butter unless such person, in addition to the milk products plant license, has a butter cutting and wrapping permit.
• § 35132 — Every person that distributes butter which is received in packaged form direct from out-of-state points shall obtain a butter distributor’s permit from the director for each plant or place of business
• § 35133 — Every butter cutting and wrapping permit and butter distributor’s permit expires at the end of each calendar year.
• § 35134 — Every person who is in charge of cutting, wrapping, packaging, or distributing butter, or any supervisor of any such person who is responsible for the grading of butter, shall obtain and hold a butter
• § 35135 — Application for such license shall be made to the director who shall examine each applicant as to his qualifications and knowledge of butter grades and of the law applicable to him.
• § 35136 — Every butter grader’s license expires on the 31st day of December.
• § 35137 — The licensing provisions of this article also apply to butter which is received in package form from out-of-state points.
• § 35161 — Every person who tests milk, cream, or any fluid derivative of milk or cream, which is purchased, received, or sold on the basis of milk fat which is contained in it, shall hold a tester’s license.
• § 35162 — Methods or processes of testing shall be approved by the director.
• § 35163 — Every person, except a licensed tester, who takes any sample of milk, cream, or any fluid derivative of milk or cream, which is purchased, received, or sold on the basis of milk fat which is contained
• § 35164 — If one person does both sampling and weighing or measuring, only one license is required.
• § 35166 — Any person who takes any sample of milk, cream, or any fluid derivative of milk or cream for testing shall hold the sample in an unchanged condition until it is delivered to a licensed tester.
• § 35167 — Every person who makes any bacteriological determination of milk or cream which is to be used as a basis of payment or determining value shall hold a technician’s license.
• § 35168 — Every person who operates any equipment wherein milk or any product of milk is pasteurized shall hold a pasteurizer’s license.
• § 35169 — Every person who tests any milk or cream purchased, received, or sold on the basis of the nonfat milk solids contained in it shall hold a nonfat milk solids tester’s license.
• § 35170 — An application for a tester's, sampler’s and weigher's, technician's, pasteurizer's, or nonfat milk solids tester’s license shall be made to the director.
• § 35171 — Every license that is issued pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 35131) and this article expires two years from the date of issue.
• § 35191 — Every person that manufactures or imports any oleomargarine or margarine, or any substance designed as a substitute for butter, or that resembles butter, which is not made wholly from pure milk or cre
• § 35193 — All records which are required to be kept by Sections 35191 and 35192 shall, at all times during business hours, be open to the inspection of the director, any officer of any city or county board of h
• § 35195 — Every manufacturer of oleomargarine shall submit to the director at the end of each month a report of the amount of oleomargarine which such person sold or distributed.
• § 35196 — Every person that holds a butter cutting and wrapping permit or a butter distributor’s permit shall, on or before the fifth day of those months in which a fee is due pursuant to Section 35227 or 35228
• § 35221 — (a) Every person that is engaged in the business of dealing in, receiving, manufacturing, freezing, or processing ice cream, ice milk, sherbet, or any similar frozen product, of manufacturing, freezin
• § 35225 — The special fee for a modified milk license, modified UHT milk license, or modified UHT cream license is one hundred dollars ($100).
• § 35226 — The fee for issuing the license required by Section 35101 for any manufacturer or processor within this state is one hundred dollars ($100) annually.
• § 35227 — Every permittee that is engaging in the business of cutting and wrapping butter shall pay a fee of one dollar ($1), plus twenty cents ($0.
• § 35228 — Every person that has a permit to engage in the business of distributing butter shall pay a fee of one dollar ($1), plus twenty cents ($0.
• § 35229 — The fees which are required by Sections 35227 and 35228 do not apply to United States government owned butter which is cut and wrapped in this state or to butter which is cut and wrapped in this state
• § 35231 — The initial and renewal fees for a tester’s, sampler’s and weigher’s, technician’s, pasteurizer’s, and butter grader’s license are as follows: (a) For a tester’s license, including a nonfat milk solid
• § 35251 — The director, at least once each month, shall report to the Controller the total amount of any money which is collected under Section 35221.
• § 35252 — The director shall, at least once each month, report to the State Controller the total amount of any money which is collected for fees under Sections 35227 and 35228.
• § 35281 — Any violation of any provision of this division, or the regulations for its enforcement, is a misdemeanor.
• § 35282 — Offering physical resistance or bodily attack on authorized representatives of the department or of an approved milk inspection service, who are engaged in the proper conduct of their official duties,
• § 35283 — Notwithstanding Sections 35281 and 35282, any person who intentionally commits any of the following acts is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one th
• § 35311 — Except as otherwise provided in this section, a penalty of 25 percent or five dollars ($5), whichever is greater, shall be added to any portion of the fee for renewal of any license which is required
• § 35312 — To the amount of any fee, except a license fee, which is required by this division, that is not paid by the last day of the month following that in which due, there shall be added a penalty of 25 perc
• § 35601 — Milk shall be produced from nonreacting tuberculin and brucellosis tested cows or goats and shall conform to the regulations adopted by the director.
• § 35602 — Milk shall be obtained by the complete milking of healthy cows or goats which are properly fed and kept.
• § 35603 — Milk which has been produced or handled in an insanitary dairy farm or milk products plant or other insanitary place or which has been handled in an insanitary manner is unfit for human consumption.
• § 35631 — Cream shall be fresh and clean.
• § 35751 — This division does not prohibit the addition of vitamins and minerals to market milk or the sale of market milk to which any vitamins and minerals have been added if such milk is labeled to show the a
• § 35752 — This division does not prohibit the freezing and holding in cold storage of market cream or concentrated market cream, its subsequent standardization with market milk or skim milk produced from market
• § 35753 — This division does not prohibit the freezing and holding in cold storage of market goat milk and its subsequent sale as market milk if at the time of sale it meets all the standards and requirements w
• § 35754 — This division does not prohibit the sterilization of market goat milk by subjecting it to a temperature which is high enough to sterilize it, holding it in storage, and subsequently selling it as mark
• § 35755 — It is unlawful for any person to sell any market milk other than graded milk as provided in this division in any city or county or any combination of cities and counties in which a milk inspection ser
• § 35756 — This division, and the regulations of the director are not a limitation on the power of a municipality or county, by ordinance or regulation, to establish compulsory pasteurization of market milk or r
• § 35757 — The secretary, in compliance with Section 407 of this code and Chapter 3.
• § 35781 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, market milk shall not contain any of the following: (1) More than 15,000 bacteria per milliliter or more than 10 coliform bacteria per milliliter if t
• § 35781.5 — A milk producer delivering in cans on delivery to a plant receiving both graded market milk and ungraded market milk or manufacturing milk shall label each can containing market milk as to the produce
• § 35782 — Market milk shall be cooled to 45 degrees Fahrenheit or below, whether it is raw or pasteurized, and, except as otherwise provided in Section 35783, shall be so maintained until it is delivered to the
• § 35783 — Market milk shall be cooled as indicated by a recording thermometer to 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius) or less within four hours of the commencement of the first milking and to 45 degrees F
• § 35783.1 — A recording thermometer shall be installed in each dairy farm milk storage tank used to cool or store market milk during the milking process.
• § 35784 — Market milk, except as provided in Section 35784.
• § 35784.1 — Market milk produced and marketed pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 35921) of this chapter and Sections 35861 and 35891 shall contain not less than 3.
• § 35784.2 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, 6 percent milk is a standard of identity and shall contain not less than 6 percent of milk fat and not less than 8.
• § 35785 — Market milk which is produced for sale under the supervision of an approved milk inspection service, or a milk inspection service which is established and conducted by the director, shall be in confor
• § 35786 — Market goat milk may be standardized to a milk fat content of not less than 2.
• § 35787 — Where a milk inspection service has been approved or established pursuant to this code, market milk shall be graded and designated into one of the following classes: (a) “Certified milk.
• § 35788 — It is unlawful for any person to sell any milk as, or under the representation of, guaranteed or grade A milk, except under the supervision of a milk inspection service which is approved by the direct
• § 35811 — Market cream shall conform to all of the standards which are set for market milk of the same grade except those which relate to milk fat and solids-not-fat, and the optional addition of harmless, edib
• § 35831 — Pasteurized market milk shall be cooled to a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit or below immediately after pasteurization and shall be so maintained until it is delivered to the consumer.
• § 35832 — (a) Repasteurized milk may only be reprocessed and sold as a “Grade A” product under the following conditions and restrictions: (1) Milk and milk products drained from processing equipment at the end
• § 35833 — All pasteurized market milk and market milk products shall be bottled or canned only in the plant where pasteurized, except as otherwise provided in this division.
• § 35834 — Raw market milk and pasteurized market milk shall not be bottled in the same milk products plant for sale and distribution within a city or county which maintains an approved milk inspection service,
• § 35861 — Guaranteed raw milk is market milk which conforms to all of the following minimum requirements: (a) The health of the cows and goats shall be determined at least once each month by an official represe
• § 35862 — All persons who come in contact with guaranteed raw milk shall exercise scrupulous cleanliness and shall not be afflicted with any communicable disease or in a condition to disseminate the germs of an
• § 35863 — Guaranteed pasteurized milk shall conform to all the requirements for guaranteed raw milk, except that it shall contain not more than 3,000 bacteria per milliliter at the time of delivery to the consu
• § 35891 — Grade A raw milk is market milk which conforms to all the following minimum requirements: (a) The health of the cows and goats shall be determined at least once in two months by an official representa
• § 35892 — All persons who come in contact with grade A raw milk shall exercise scrupulous cleanliness and shall not be afflicted with any communicable disease or be in a condition to disseminate the germs of an
• § 35893 — Milk for grade A pasteurized milk is market milk that conforms to all the following minimum requirements: (a) The health of the cows or goats shall be determined at least once in six months by an offi
• § 35921 — Certified milk is market milk which conforms to the rules, regulations, methods, and standards for the production and distribution of certified milk adopted by the county milk commission established i
• § 35922 — Certified milk shall bear the certification of a milk commission which shall be appointed as provided by this article by the board of supervisors in any county in which certified milk was produced on
• § 35923 — A county milk commission shall consist of six members who reside in the county where the commission is located and who shall be appointed by the board of supervisors for a term of four years and shall
• § 35924 — A county milk commission shall adopt rules, regulations, and standards governing the production, distribution, and sale of certified milk, including unpasteurized milk, as it deems necessary to protec
• § 35924.5 — A county milk commission shall give reasonable notice to the public of its meetings, and shall hold its public hearings in public buildings.
• § 35925 — A county milk commission shall certify milk, including unpasteurized milk, for any applicant for certification whose milk complies with the rules, regulations, and standards for production, distributi
• § 35926 — A county milk commission may establish such fees, and expend funds derived therefrom, as are reasonably necessary to defray the costs of certifying milk.
• § 35927 — A county milk commission may conduct any tests that it finds are reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of this article and may employ personnel to conduct such tests and for such other duties
• § 35928 — (a) When the director, any health officer acting as an agent of the director, or a milk inspection officer acting as an agent of the director having jurisdiction, determines that the oral ingestion by
• § 35941 — Homogenized market milk is market milk which has been subjected to a process or treatment in such manner as to insure the breakup of the fat globules to such an extent that no visible cream separation
• § 35943 — Homogenized market cream is market cream which has been subjected to a process or treatment in such manner as to insure breakage of the fat globules to such an extent that no visible cream separation
• § 35944 — Homogenized market milk or homogenized market cream shall not be mixed with market milk or market cream which has not been homogenized.
• § 35945 — Homogenized milk and homogenized cream shall be so labeled.
• § 35971 — Half-and-half is a food that complies with Section 131.
• § 35975 — (a) For purposes of this article, “ultra-filtered milk products” are market milk products resulting from the filtration of milk to alter the relative quantities of milk solids, including proteins, lac
• § 36 — “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.
• § 36001 — The following information shall at all times appear plainly and in a conspicuous place on, or be securely attached to, every cap, bottle, can, or other container of all market milk which is sold: (a)
• § 36002 — All labels which are required by Section 36001 shall be in capital letters of a size and boldness as to be legible by the purchaser or consumer.
• § 36004 — (a) At the time of sale to the consumer by a retail store of any product designated in this section, there shall appear on the package or container of the product the date established by the processor
• § 36005 — If a product is made from goat milk, either the phrase “goat milk” or “made from goat milk” shall immediately precede or follow the name of the product wherever the name appears, and in the same type
• § 36031 — It is unlawful for any person that sells or handles market milk, except the original bottler of the market milk, to have in his possession, or under his control, any milk bottle cap or label, except t
• § 36032 — It is unlawful for any person that sells or handles market milk to remove any cap or label from any milk container and attach such cap or label to another milk container.
• § 36033 — It is unlawful for any person to sell or use any milk bottle caps which are not packed by the manufacturer in single column in unopened, dustproof tubular packages.
• § 36061 — No false, misleading, or deceptive name, picture, symbol, mark, word, or other representation shall appear on any milk bottle, bottle cap, can, or other container, nor on any advertisement for market
• § 36062 — A label or advertisement of market milk is false, misleading, or deceptive if in any particular it is untrue, or by ambiguity or inference creates a misleading or deceptive impression regarding the pr
• § 36063 — It is unlawful for any person to sell, purchase, use, or represent as market milk or market cream any milk or cream which does not meet the requirements and standards of market milk or market cream.
• § 36064 — Except as otherwise provided in this division, it is unlawful for any person to sell, purchase, use, or represent as market milk or market cream any milk or cream which is combined with any other subs
• § 36065 — It is unlawful for any person to serve to any customer for consumption on the premises milk or cream which is combined with any other substance or compound and represented as a substitute for or to ta
• § 36091 — Milk that is delivered by the producer of the milk, to be sold as any grade of market milk, shall not be restricted in use or excluded from the market if a score of the dairy farm on which the milk is
• § 36092 — If, during the 60 hours following the rescoring of a dairy farm, a protest is filed with the head of the milk inspection service under whose jurisdiction the milk of the dairy farm is sold, the milk w
• § 36123 — Whenever two of the last four consecutive bacteria counts, coliform determinations, or cooling temperatures taken on separate days exceed the limit of the standard for market milk or products of marke
• § 36301 — Restricted use market milk, manufacturing milk, or manufacturing cream shall be sold only for manufacturing purposes and to be converted into some other form or product.
• § 36302 — Restricted use market milk, manufacturing milk, or manufacturing cream shall not be sold for human consumption in a fluid state.
• § 36303 — Restricted use market milk, manufacturing milk, or manufacturing cream shall not be sold in quantities of less than three gallons or in containers of less than three gallons capacity.
• § 36304 — The provisions of Sections 36301, 36302, and 36303 do not apply to milk or cream which is sold by a producer to a milk products plant.
• § 36306 — Manufacturing milk or manufacturing cream may be repasteurized once.
• § 36331 — Manufacturing milk shall comply with all of the following requirements: (a) It shall be free from foreign substances.
• § 36601 — The director shall adopt, by regulation, quality standards that are necessary for any product which is defined in this division.
• § 36602 — The director, in determining the quality of any product which is sold, but not produced and processed in this state, shall ascertain that such product will meet the minimum quality requirements which
• § 36603 — Any standard which is established pursuant to this article shall expire on the 61st day after the final adjournment of the second regular session of the Legislature commencing after the establishment
• § 36604 — No product for which standards are required to be established pursuant to Section 36601 is required to meet any quality standards which are in excess of those that are in effect under regulations of t
• § 36605 — Except as otherwise provided in Section 36604 and notwithstanding any other provisions of this part, no dairy products, as such products are defined in this division, shall be sold within this state u
• § 36606 — (a) Safe and suitable bacteria standards may be adopted by the director for use in specific dairy products except for varieties of hard and soft cheese.
• § 36631 — (a) The Legislature intends that the director administer this article to accommodate, in a timely fashion, safe and wholesome milk products.
• § 36632 — (a) Upon the request of any interested person, the director may, following a properly noticed hearing, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 36634, grant a temporary standard for an initial period of
• § 36633 — (a) A hearing called pursuant to this article shall be for the following purposes: (1) Establishing if the product proposed for a temporary standard qualifies for that standard.
• § 36634 — The processing of a petition for a temporary standard shall conform to the following schedule: (a) Notice of the requested hearing or denial thereof shall be announced by the director within 15 days a
• § 36635 — An unsuccessful petitioner for a temporary standard may repetition not earlier than 60 days following written notification of the denial of the original temporary standard request, if the proposed def
• § 36636 — A temporary standard granted pursuant to this article may be renewed for a period of one year if the director determines that the renewal is necessary to adequately assess the market potential of the
• § 36637 — Upon granting a petition under this article, the director shall adopt the standard as an emergency regulation pursuant to Chapter 3.
• § 36638 — If the director fails to respond to a petition for a temporary standard within 65 days following receipt of the petition, the petitioner may thereafter utilize the standard.
• § 36661 — In addition to the standards for milk and milk products which are adopted pursuant to this division, the director may adopt separate standards and labeling requirements for any milk or milk product to
• § 36662 — Every definition, standard, and labeling requirement which is adopted pursuant to this article expires on the 91st day after the final adjournment of the next general session of the Legislature.
• § 36670 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, sweeteners approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in milk products may be added to milk products.
• § 36671 — Prior to the use of any sweetener in a dairy product, the sweetener must be approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in that milk product or the applicable milk product categ
• § 36672 — Except as otherwise provided in this article, a milk product containing any sweetener shall be in conformance with all provisions of the applicable product definition and the identity standard specifi
• § 36673 — A milk product containing any sweetener not included in the product identity standard shall be labeled in accordance with Section 36674 and all federal requirements, including any necessary consumer w
• § 36674 — (a) The director shall approve the label and the name for any milk product containing any sweetener not included in the product identity standard.
• § 36675 — The director shall, within 60 days after the effective date of this article, develop and distribute guidelines applicable to food handling establishments which serve milk products intended for on-prem
• § 36801 — Pasteurized cream that is sold or used for ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, frozen dessert, or sherbet manufacture shall be clean, sweet, and free from undesirable flavors and odors.
• § 36802 — Milk and any milk product that is used in the manufacture of ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, frozen dessert, or sherbet shall be pasteurized.
• § 36803 — Sweet butter that is used in ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, and frozen dessert shall be unsalted butter made from sweet cream that is free from undesirable flavor or odors.
• § 36804 — Every product which is defined in this chapter shall be advertised and labeled in accordance with regulations which are adopted by the director.
• § 36805 — (a) Ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, frozen dessert, sherbet, or quiescently frozen confections when sold in package form shall be labeled with the name, address, and ZIP Code of the manufacturer, the
• § 36806 — Ice cream mix, frozen yogurt mix, frozen dairy dessert mix, and frozen dessert mix are unfrozen products that are used in the manufacture of ice cream, frozen yogurt, frozen dairy dessert, or frozen d
• § 36807 — The director, by regulations, may authorize the use of wholesome, edible dairy products, as permissible ingredients, in frozen dairy products, in addition to those for which standards are provided for
• § 36808 — Ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, frozen dessert, and sherbet may contain safe and suitable nonmilk-derived ingredients as specified in applicable provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations.
• § 36809 — Federal nutritional labeling regulations apply to all frozen dairy products, except nutritional labeling provided for any frozen dairy product mix or any frozen dairy product dispensed by a soft serve
• § 36861 — Ice cream is a food that complies with Section 135.
• § 36951 — Sherbet is a food that complies with Section 135.
• § 36952 — Yogurt sherbet is a product that meets all the requirements and standards prescribed for sherbet, except as follows: (a) It shall have an acidity of not less than six-tenths of 1 percent calculated as
• § 36981 — Quiescently frozen confections means a clean and wholesome frozen, sweetened, flavored product in the manufacture of which freezing, which is not accompanied with stirring or agitation (generally know
• § 36982 — Quiescently frozen confections may be sold under trade names which are not misleading or deceptive.
• § 36983 — A quiescently frozen confection shall be manufactured in a form of servings, individually packaged, bagged, or otherwise wrapped, properly labeled, and purveyed to the consumer in their original facto
• § 36984 — In the production of a quiescently frozen confection, no processing or mixing prior to the quiescent freezing shall be used that develops in the finished confection mix any physical expansion in exces
• § 36991 — Frozen yogurt is a frozen dairy product.
• § 36992 — Frozen yogurt shall contain not less than 3.
• § 37101 — As used in this chapter: (a) “Package” includes cartons, wrappers, or other containers which are used for the sale of butter to the retail trade.
• § 37102 — All scoring of butter shall be in the manner which is specified in the regulations which are adopted by the director.
• § 37103 — Quality designations shall be affixed on the package in a manner and fashion which is prescribed in the regulations which are adopted by the director.
• § 37104 — Notwithstanding Section 26001 of the Business and Professions Code, butter purchased from a licensed milk products plant or retail location that is subsequently infused or mixed with medicinal or adul
• § 37131 — All butter which is sold or distributed in package form, including such butter which is received from out-of-state points, shall be classified into grades which indicate its quality and shall be label
• § 37132 — First quality butter is butter which scores not less than 92.
• § 37133 — Second quality butter is butter which scores below 92, but not less than 90.
• § 37134 — Butter which scores less than 90 shall not be sold or served to consumers.
• § 37161 — Butter is the product made by gathering the fat or fresh or ripened milk or cream into a mass, which also contains a small portion of other milk constituents.
• § 37162 — Butter shall be clean and nonrancid and shall contain not less than 80 percent of milk fat.