[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR131.180]

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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 131--MILK AND CREAM--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart B--Requirements for Specific Standardized Milk and Cream
 
Sec. 131.180  Half-and-half.

    (a) Description. Half-and-half is the food consisting of a mixture 
of milk and cream which contains not less than 10.5 percent but less 
than 18 percent milkfat. It is pasteurized or ultra-pasteurized, and may 
be homogenized.
    (b) Optional ingredients. The following safe and suitable optional 
ingredients may be used:
    (1) Emulsifiers.
    (2) Stabilizers.
    (3) Nutritive sweeteners.
    (4) Characterizing flavoring ingredients (with or without coloring) 
as follows:
    (i) Fruit and fruit juice (including concentrated fruit and fruit 
juice).
    (ii) Natural and artificial food flavoring.
    (c) Methods of analysis. The milkfat content is determined by the 
method prescribed in ``Official Methods of Analysis of the Association 
of Official Analytical Chemists,'' 13th Ed. (1980), in sections 16.156 
and 16.059, under ``Fat, Roese-Gottlieb Method--Official Final Action,'' 
which is incorporated

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by reference. Copies may be obtained from the Association of Official 
Analytical Chemists International, 481 North Frederick Ave., suite 500, 
Gaithersburg, MD 20877-2504, or may be examined at the Office of the 
Federal Register, 800 North Capitol Street, NW., suite 700, Washington, 
DC.
    (d) Nomenclature. The name of the food is ``Half-and-half''. The 
name of the food shall be accompanied on the label by a declaration 
indicating the presence of any characterizing flavoring, as specified in 
Sec. 101.22 of this chapter.
    (1) The following terms shall accompany the name of the food 
wherever it appears on the principal display panel or panels of the 
label in letters not less than one-half the height of the letters used 
in such name:
    (i) The word ``ultra-pasteurized'' if the food has been ultra-
pasteurized.
    (ii) The word ``sweetened'' if no characterizing flavor ingredients 
are used, but nutritive sweetener is added.
    (2) The following terms may appear on the label:
    (i) The word ``pasteurized'' if the food has been pasteurized.
    (ii) The word ``homogenized'' if the food has been homogenized.
    (e) Label declaration. Each of the ingredients used in the food 
shall be declared on the label as required by the applicable sections of 
parts 101 and 130 of this chapter.

[42 FR 14360, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 47 FR 11825, Mar. 19, 1982; 
49 FR 10092, Mar. 19, 1984; 54 FR 24893, June 12, 1989; 58 FR 2891, Jan. 
6, 1993]