[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: 21CFR163.135]

[Page 514]
 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 163--CACAO PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart B--Requirements for Specific Standardized Cacao Products
 
Sec. 163.135  Buttermilk chocolate.

    (a) Description. Buttermilk chocolate is the food that conforms to 
the standard of identity, and is subject to the requirements for label 
declaration of ingredients for milk chocolate in Sec. 163.130, except 
that:
    (1) The optional dairy ingredients are limited to sweet cream 
buttermilk, concentrated sweet cream buttermilk, dried sweet cream 
buttermilk, and any combination of these; and
    (2) The finished buttermilk chocolate contains less than 3.39 
percent by weight of milkfat and not less than 12 percent by weight of 
sweet cream buttermilk solids based on those dairy ingredients specified 
in paragraph (a)(1) of this section, exclusive of any added sweetener or 
other dairy-derived ingredient that is added beyond that amount that is 
normally present in the specified dairy ingredient.
    (b) Nomenclature. The name of the food is ``buttermilk chocolate'', 
``buttermilk chocolate coating'', ``sweet buttermilk chocolate'', 
``sweet buttermilk chocolate coating'', ``sweet cream buttermilk 
chocolate'', or ``sweet cream buttermilk chocolate coating''.