New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS › Subchapter 8 - IMITATION MILK, IMITATION LOW FAT MILK AND IMITATION FLUID MILK PRODUCTS › Section 8:21-8.1 - Definitions and standards of identity

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
For the purposes of these regulations the following definitions
				  and standards of identity shall obtain:
(a)
				Imitation milk is a fluid product in which there is combined one or more edible fats
				or oils with not less than 8 1/4 percent milk solids-not-fat derived from fluid or
				dry products. Above the minimum level for milk solids-not-fat, edible food solids
				other than milk solids-not-fat may be used. Imitation milk shall contain not less
				than 3 1/4 percent by weight of edible fats or oils. If only one fat or oil is used
				in any such combination, one of them may be milk fat.
Imitation milk may contain one or more of the optional ingredients
				  specified in Regulation 1 (b) in amounts necessary to accomplish its or their
				  intended purpose; except that if Vitamin A is used, it is used in such quantity that
				  eight fluid ounces of the finished product contains not less than 500 USP units and,
				  when Vitamin D is used, it is used in such quantity that eight fluid ounces of the
				  finished product contains not less than 100 USP units.
(b) Optional ingredients referred to in subsection
				(a) of this Section are: stabilizers, emulsifiers, diacetyl and other like flavors,
				vitamins, minerals, edible food solids other than milk solids and other similar
				ingredients approved by the Department.
(c) Imitation low fat milk conforms in all
				respects to the definition and standard of identity for imitation milk including the
				provisions relating to the use of optional ingredients, except that it shall contain
				not less than 0.5 percent and not more than 2.0 percent by weight of edible fats or
				oils.
(d) Imitation fluid milk products
				mean and include any combination of edible fats and oils with milk solids-not-fat so
				that the resulting product is in semblance or imitation of one or another of the
				following fluid milk products: milk, cream, half-and-half, flavored milk, dairy
				drink, cultured buttermilk, cultured milk, cultured sour cream, cultured salad
				cream, yogurt, cultured half-and-half; and such other fluid milk products as may be
				designated by the Department, but shall not include evaporated milk, condensed milk
				or dry milk products, nor imitation fluid milk products which are sterilized and
				packaged in hermetically-sealed containers.
With respect to each particular imitation fluid milk product,
				  edible fats and oils shall be present in the same minimum proportion as the minimum
				  butterfat requirement for the fluid milk product in semblance or imitation of which
				  it is made. If only one fat or oil is used it shall be a fat or oil other than milk
				  fat. If more than one edible fat or oil is used in any such combination, one of them
				  may be milk fat. Each particular product shall contain not less than the minimum
				  proportion of milk solids-not-fat as is present in the fluid milk product in
				  semblance of which the imitation fluid milk product is made. Above the minimum level
				  for milk solids-not-fat, edible food solids other than milk solids-not-fat may be
				  used.
Imitation fluid milk products may contain one or more of the
				  following optional ingredients in amounts not in excess of the amount necessary to
				  accomplish the intended purpose of its use: flavorings, sweeteners, stabilizers,
				  emulsifiers, acidifiers, vitamins, minerals, edible food solids other than milk
				  solids, and similar ingredients approved by the Department.
(e) The name of each imitation fluid milk product
				shall be "Imitation ..........", the blank to be filled by the name of the fluid
				milk product in semblance or imitation of which the imitation fluid milk product is
				made.