Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 40 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › Chapter 40-7 - FOOD DIVISION REGULATIONS › Subject 40-7-9 - ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND BOTTLERS OF BOTTLED SOFT DRINKS AND SOFT DRINK SYRUPS › Rule 40-7-9-.29 - Soda Water; Identity; Label Statement of Optional Ingredients

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
(1) Soda water is
				the class of beverages made by absorbing carbon dioxide in potable water. The
				amount of carbon dioxide used is not less than that which will be absorbed by
				the beverage at a pressure of one atmosphere and at a temperature of 60 F. It
				may contain buffering agents as provided in paragraph
				40-7-9-.29(2)(e) of
				this section. It either contains no alcohol or only such alcohol (not in excess
				of 0.5 percent by weight of the finished beverage) as is contributed by the
				flavoring ingredient used. Soda water designated by a name, including any
				proprietary name provided for in paragraph
				40-7-9-.29(2)(c) of
				this section, which includes the word cola or a designation as a pepper
				beverage or any other beverage which has been well known as being made with
				kola nut extract and or other natural caffeine containing extracts that, for
				years, has become well-known as being made with kola nut extract, and thus as a
				caffeine containing drink, shall contain caffeine in a quantity not to exceed
				0.02 percent by weight.
(2) Soda
				water may contain optional ingredients, but if any such ingredient is a food
				additive or a color additive within the meaning of section 201 (s) or (t) of
				the Federal Act, it is used only in conformity with a regulation established
				pursuant to section 409 or 706 of the act. The optional ingredients that may be
				used in soda water in such proportions as are reasonably required to accomplish
				their intended effects are:
(a) Nutritive
				sweeteners consisting of the dry or liquid form of sugar, invert sugar,
				dextrose, corn syrup, glucose syrup, sorbitol, aspartame, or any combination of
				two or more of these. Newly developed products of like nature approved by FDA
				will be accepted for use by the Department.
(b) One or more of the following flavoring
				ingredients may be added in a carrier consisting of ethyl alcohol, glycerin, or
				propylene glycol. Newly developed products of like nature approved by FDA will
				be accepted for use by the Department.
1.
				Fruit juices (including concentrated fruit juices), natural flavoring derived
				from fruits, vegetables, bark, buds, roots, leaves, and similar plant
				materials.
2. Artificial
				flavoring.
(c) Natural
				or artificial color additives.
(d)
				One or more of the acidifying agents; acetic acid, adipic acid, citric acid,
				fumeric acid, lactic acid, malic acid, phosphoric acid, tartaric acid. Newly
				developed products of like nature approved by FDA will be accepted for use by
				the Department.
(e) One or more of
				the buffering agents consisting of the acetate, bicarbonate, carbonate,
				chloride, citrate, lactate, orthophosphate, or sulfate salts of calcium,
				magnesium, potassium or sodium. Newly developed products of like nature
				approved by FDA will be accepted for use by the Department.
(f) One or more of the emulsifying,
				stabilizing, or viscosity-producing agents; brominated vegetable oils, carob
				bean gum, locust bean gum, glycerol ester of wood rosin, aguar gum, gum acacia,
				gum tragacanth, hydroxylated lecithin, lecithin, methylcellulose, mono and
				diglycerides of fat-forming fatty acids, pectin, polyglycerol esters of fatty
				acids, propylene glycol alginate, sodium alginate, sodium
				carboxymethlycellulose, sodium metaphosphate (sodium hexametaphophate). Newly
				developed products of like nature approved by FDA will be accepted for use by
				the Department.
(g) One or more of
				the foaming agents; ammoniated glycyrrhizin, gum ghatti, licorice or
				glycyrrhiza, yucca (Joshua-tree), yucca (Mohave). Newly developed products of
				like nature approved by FDA will be accepted for use by the
				Department.
(h) Caffeine, in an
				amount not to exceed 0.02 percent by weight of the finished beverage.
(i) Quinine, as provided in this Regulation,
				in an amount not to exceed 83 parts per million by weight of the finished
				beverage.
(j) One or more of the
				chemical preservatives ascorbic acid, benzoic acid, BHA, BHT, calcium disodium
				EDTA, erythorib acid, glucose-oxidase-catalase enzyme, methyl or propyl
				paraben, nordihydroguaiaretic acid, propyl gallate, potassium or sodium
				benzoate, potassium or sodium bisulfite, potassium or sodium metabisulfite,
				potassium or sodium sorbate, sorbic acid, sulfurdioxide, or tocopherols. Newly
				developed products of like nature approved by FDA will be accepted for use by
				the Department.