[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR105.3]

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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 105_FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USE--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec.  105.3  Definitions and interpretations.


    The definitions and interpretations of terms contained in section 
201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (hereafter ``the act'') 
shall be applicable with the following additions:
    (a)(1) The term special dietary uses, as applied to food for man, 
means particular (as distinguished from general) uses of food, as 
follows:
    (i) Uses for supplying particular dietary needs which exist by 
reason of a physical, physiological, pathological or other condition, 
including but not limited to the conditions of diseases, convalescence, 
pregnancy, lactation, allergic hypersensitivity to food, underweight, 
and overweight;
    (ii) Uses for supplying particular dietary needs which exist by 
reason of age, including but not limited to the ages of infancy and 
childhood;
    (iii) Uses for supplementing or fortifying the ordinary or usual 
diet with any vitamin, mineral, or other dietary property. Any such 
particular use of a food is a special dietary use, regardless

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of whether such food also purports to be or is represented for general 
use.
    (2) The use of an artificial sweetener in a food, except when 
specifically and solely used for achieving a physical characteristic in 
the food which cannot be achieved with sugar or other nutritive 
sweetener, shall be considered a use for regulation of the intake of 
calories and available carbohydrate, or for use in the diets of 
diabetics and is therefore a special dietary use.
    (b)-(d) [Reserved]
    (e) For the purposes of the regulations in this part, the terms 
infant, child, and adult mean persons not more than 12 months old, more 
than 12 months but less than 12 years old, and 12 years or more old, 
respectively.

[42 FR 14328, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 44 FR 16006, Mar. 16, 1979; 
44 FR 49665, Aug. 24, 1979]