Article 1. General Provisions of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 15. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.

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. It shall contain not more than 75,000 bacteria per milliliter, official plate count.

Milk and any milk product that is used in the manufacture of ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, frozen dessert, or sherbet shall be pasteurized.

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. It shall have a rating of not less than 92 in accordance with the standards for quality of creamery butter that are established in Article 2 (commencing with Section 37131) of Chapter 3. Cream to which has been added ripener or starter, or cream that has been neutralized, is not sweet cream within the meaning of this section.

Every product which is defined in this chapter shall be advertised and labeled in accordance with regulations which are adopted by the director.

(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 wholesale distributor, or the retailer.
  (b) If the name and address is not that of the original milk products processing plant, there shall be stamped, printed, or embossed upon the package, in a manner acceptable to the director, the plant number of the manufacturer or packer. This plant identification shall be consistent with, and not more restrictive than, the National Uniform Coding System for packaging identification of milk and milk products processing plants.

Ice cream mix, frozen dairy dessert mix, and frozen dessert mix are unfrozen products that are used in the manufacture of ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, or frozen dessert. They shall comply with all the requirements for ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, or frozen dessert, respectively.

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 under this code for such frozen dairy products.

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. If these nonmilk-derived ingredients are used, the minimum quantity of food solids required in this chapter for ice cream, frozen dairy dessert, frozen dessert, and sherbet shall be maintained exclusively of these additives.

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 establishment, shall state, on the basis of weight, the serving size upon which nutritional declarations are based.