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SECTION 38651-38655
38651. Flavored milk is market milk to which has been added a stabilizer, sugar, syrup, or flavor made from wholesome ingredients. Flavored milk may be sold as flavored milk, flavored reduced-fat milk, flavored lowfat or light (lite) milk, flavored high nutrient lowfat milk, and flavored nonfat skim or fat-free milk. Flavored milk shall be labeled with the name of the product. The principal flavor may be substituted for the word "flavored" in the name of the product as, for example, "chocolate nonfat milk" in substitution for "flavored nonfat milk." Flavored milk shall be so colored or contain ingredients that cause it to differ distinctly from milk in appearance and other characteristics. 38652. (a) Flavored milk is pasteurized, homogenized milk which meets all standards and requirements which are specified in this division for pasteurized, homogenized milk, and which are specified in Section 38651, except flavored milk shall contain not less than 3.25 percent milk fat. (b) Flavored milk made from goat milk need not be homogenized, and shall contain not less than 2.8 percent fat. 38653. Flavored lowfat milk shall contain not more than 1.2 percent milk fat. Flavored reduced-fat milk shall contain not more than 2.1 percent milk fat, and shall otherwise meet all standards and requirements that are specified in this division for lowfat or reduced-fat milk, and which are specified in Section 38651. 38654. Flavored nonfat skim or fat-free milk shall contain not more than twenty hundredths of 1 percent of milk fat, and shall otherwise meet all standards and requirements that are specified in this division for skim milk, nonfat milk or fat-free milk, and which are specified in Section 38651. 38655. Flavored high nutrient lowfat milk shall contain not more than 1.2 percent milk fat, and shall otherwise meet all standards and requirements which are specified in this division for high nutrient lowfat milk, and which are specified in Section 38651.
