[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR131.155]

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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.  131.155  Light cream.

    (a) Description. Light cream is cream which contains not less than 
18 percent but less than 30 percent milkfat. It is pasteurized or ultra-
pasteurized, and may be homogenized.
    (b) Optional ingredients. The following safe and suitable 
ingredients may be used:
    (1) Stabilizers.
    (2) Emulsifiers.
    (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), sections 16.156 and 
16.059, under ``Fat, Roese-Gottlieb Method--Official Final Action,'' 
which is incorporated by reference. Copies may be obtained from

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    (d) Nomenclature. The name of the food is ``Light cream'', or 
alternatively ``Coffee cream'' or ``Table cream''. 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 flavoring 
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 11824, Mar. 19, 1982; 
49 FR 10092, Mar. 1, 1984; 54 FR 24893, June 12, 1989; 58 FR 2891, Jan. 
6, 1993]