California Code of Regulations › Title 3 - Food and Agriculture › Division 2 - Animal Industry › Chapter 1 - Dairies › Article 24 - Butter Grades › Section 686 - Butter Grades

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
In accordance with Section
					 37103 of the Food and Agricultural
					 Code, quality designations are to be affixed on butter packages as
					 follows:
(a) On quarter-pound,
				  half-pound, one-pound and two-pound butter wrappers, the quality designations
				  shall appear on the lower side panel. No other printing shall appear on the
				  lower side panel, except designations which have been approved by the director,
				  which designs shall in no case overlap or interfere with the legibility of said
				  quality designations. On continuous design machine wrappers, the quality
				  designation need not appear on the lower side panel but at least two full
				  quality designations shall appear on each wrapper. The quality designations on
				  quarter-pound and half-pound wrappers are required to appear in 12-point type
				  in caps for the letters and 24-point type for the numerals. On one and
				  two-pound wrappers the 24-point type in caps is to be used for the letters and
				  48-point type for the numerals. When butter is packaged in any other than
				  quarter-pound, half-pound, one or two-pound prints the size of type to be used
				  for quality designations on such packages shall be approved by the
				  director.
(b) The quality
				  designations must b spelled out with no abbreviations being permitted. The
				  terms to be used are as follows: "1 First Quality 1" and "2 Second Quality
				  2."
(c) On butter cartons, or
				  packages, the quality designations must appear on the two end or side panels
				  with nothing else appearing thereon, except that the name of the manufacturer
				  or the brand of the butter may appear. The same terms appearing on the wrapper
				  shall be used, except that the words "first quality" or "second quality" are to
				  appear as in the following arrangement:
FIRST QUALITY
The numerals shall also appear on each side of the end
					 panel.
(d) On the half-pound
				  and one-pound carton, the numerals shall be three-quarters of an inch in height
				  and the lettering one-fourth of an inch in height. On cartons or packages of
				  two pounds or more, including chiplets, the numerals shall be one and
				  one-fourth inches in height and the lettering one-half inch in
				  height.
(e) When the name of the
				  manufacturer or the name of the brand of butter appears in connection with
				  quality designations, they shall be in letters not larger than half the size of
				  the type used for quality designations.
(f) Quality designations are to be of the
				  same color used for the manufacturer's name or butter brand except where
				  otherwise approved in writing by the director. Yellow and similar colors are
				  not to be used for quality designations.
1. Amendment
					 filed 10-7-49 (Register 18, No. 2).
2. Amendment filed 9-21-56;
					 effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 56, No. 18).
3.
					 Amendment filed 2-23-62; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 62, No.
					 4).
4. Amendment filed 4-25-75 as procedural and organizational;
					 effective upon filing (Register 75, No. 17).