New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS › Chapter VI - Food Control › Subchapter G - Inspection of Meat, Meat Products and Poultry (Article 5-B Agriculture and Markets Law) › Article 1 - Meat and Meat Products › Part 316 - Marking Products And Their Containers › Section 316.11 - Special markings for certain meat food products

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Meat food products prepared in casing or
					 link form (whether or not thereafter subdivided), other than sausage, which
					 possess the characteristics of or resemble sausage, shall bear on each link or
					 piece the word "imitation" prominently displayed: provided, that the following
					 need not be so marked if they bear on each link or piece the name of the
					 product in accordance with section
					 317.2 
					 of this Article: Such products as coppa, capocollo, lachschinken, bacon, pork
					 loins, pork shoulder butts, and similar cuts of meat which are prepared without
					 added substance other than curing materials or condiments; meat rolls,
					 bockwurst, and similar products which do not contain cereal or vegetables;
					 headcheese, souse, sulze, scrapple, blood pudding, and liver pudding; and other
					 products such as loaves, chili con carne, and meat and cheese products when
					 prepared with sufficient cheese to give definite characteristics to the
					 finished products; and provided further, that imitation sausage packed in
					 properly labeled containers having a capacity of three pounds or less of a kind
					 usually sold at retail intact, need not bear the word "imitation" on each link
					 or piece if no other marking or labeling is applied directly to the
					 product.
(b) When cereal, vegetable
					 starch, starchy vegetable flour, soy protein concentrate, isolated soy protein,
					 dried milk, nonfat dry milk, or calcium reduced dried skim milk is added to
					 sausage in casing or in link form within the limits prescribed in Part 319 of
					 this Article, the products shall be marked with the name of each added
					 ingredient, as for example "cereal added", "potato flour added", "cereal and
					 potato flour added", "soy flour added", "isolated soy protein added", "nonfat
					 dry milk added", "calcium reduced dried skim milk added", or "cereal and nonfat
					 dry milk added", as the case may be.
(c)
(1)
					 When product is placed in a casing to which artificial coloring is thereafter
					 applied, as permitted in Part 318 of this Article, the product shall be legibly
					 and conspicuously marked by stamping or printing on the casing the words
					 "artificially colored".
(2) If a
					 casing is removed from product at an official establishment and there is
					 evidence of artificial coloring of the surface of the product, the product from
					 which the casing has been removed shall be marked by stamping directly thereon
					 the word "artificially colored".
(3) The casing containing product need not be
					 marked to show that it is colored if it is colored prior to its use as a
					 covering for the product, and the coloring is of a kind and so applied as not
					 to be transferable to the product and not to be misleading or deceptive in any
					 respect.