[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR131.120]

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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. 131.120  Sweetened condensed milk.

    (a) Description. Sweetened condensed milk is the food obtained by 
partial removal of water only from a mixture of milk and safe and 
suitable nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners. The finished food contains 
not less than 8 percent by weight of milkfat, and not less than 28 
percent by weight of total milk solids. The quantity of nutritive 
carbohydrate sweetener used is sufficient to prevent spoilage. The food 
is pasteurized and may be homogenized.
    (b) Optional ingredients. The following safe and suitable 
characterizing flavoring ingredients, with or without coloring and 
nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners, may be used:
    (1) Fruit and fruit juice, including concentrated fruit and fruit 
juice.
    (2) 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), section 16.185, 
under ``Fat--Official Final Action,'' which is incorporated 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 ``Sweetened condensed 
milk.'' The word ``homogenized'' may appear on the label if the food has 
been homogenized. The name of the food shall include a declaration of 
the presence of any characterizing flavoring, as specified in 
Sec. 101.22 of this chapter.
    (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.

[43 FR 21670, May 19, 1978, as amended at 47 FR 11823, Mar. 19, 1982; 49 
FR 10091, Mar. 19, 1984; 54 FR 24892, June 12, 1989; 58 FR 2890, Jan. 6, 
1993]