ARTICLE 3. Standards [38924. - 38926.5.]

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC 3.

in effect

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 38924. Section 38924.

The director shall adopt regulations providing for the healthfulness and standard of purity of products resembling milk products. The regulations shall be those reasonably necessary to ensure that the products are safe for human consumption under the circumstances under which they are likely to be offered for sale and consumed. The standards of purity, including bacterial standards, shall not be less than those of the milk products imitated or substituted.

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 38925. Section 38925.

When the use of market milk or any derivative or component of market milk is required in any milk product, any fluid milk, fluid skim milk, fluid cream, milk fat or milk solids used in an imitation milk product imitating the milk product shall be market milk.

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 38926. Section 38926.

Nondairy frozen dessert shall comply with the following standards: (a) The product shall contain not less than one-half of 1 percent of edible oil or fat other than milk fat. (b) The product shall contain 1.3 pounds of food solids per gallon at the time of sale to the consumer. (c) The product may contain harmless edible stabilizers and emulsifiers as specified in Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (d) The product may contain nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners. (e) The product may contain fruit or fruit juices, nut meats, harmless flavoring, and harmless coloring. (f) The product shall not contain more than 75,000 bacteria or 10 coliform bacteria per gram.

Cal. Food and Agricultural Code - FAC § 38926.5. Section 38926.5.

Nondairy frozen dessert mix is a product in a final, dry, or concentrated form used in the manufacture of nondairy frozen dessert. It shall comply with all the requirements of nondairy frozen dessert. It shall have been pasteurized or otherwise subjected to a process that has been proven, to the satisfaction of the director, to be equally effective.

Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026