- A. Description. Non-fruit water ice is a food prepared from the same ingredients and in the same manner, including the requirements for labeling, prescribed in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21 Food and Drugs, Part 135.160 Water Ices, except that the food may not contain any fruit or fruit juice. The finished non-fruit water ice weighs not less than 6 pounds per gallon.
- B. Nomenclature. The name of the food is “Non-fruit ___ Water Ice”. The blank is to be filled in by the characterizing flavor used.
C. Labeling.
- (1) The label shall contain the following statement: “Imitation ___ Ice”. The blank is to be filled in by the characterizing flavor used. The letters in the word imitation shall be the same size, type, and color and on the same contrasting background as the name of the characterizing flavor and the word, ice.
- (2) The statement in §C(1), of this regulation, shall be followed immediately by the words, “contains no fruit or fruit juice”, in letters at least half the size of the words used in the statement.
- (3) When a sign is used at the point of purchase to advertise the product, it shall contain the same information prescribed in §C(1) and (2), of this regulation.
Authority: Health-General Article, §21-804, Annotated Code of Maryland
Effective date: November 15, 1973
Regulations .25A, .26U, and .27A amended effective August 25, 1978 (5:17 Md. R. 1330)
Chapter revised effective June 12, 1981 (8:12 Md. R. 1062)
Regulations .02C, .14, .21B, .25G, H, I, .29A, and .30 amended effective January 12, 1987 (14:1 Md. R. 31)
Regulations .10-1, .20-1, .20-2, and .20-3 adopted effective January 12, 1987 (14:1 Md. R. 31)
Regulation .21B amended effective January 2, 1994 (20:26 Md. R. 2027)
Regulation .22 amended as an emergency provision effective June 27, 2012 (39:15 Md. R. 962); amended permanently effective October 1, 2012 (39:19 Md. R. 1236)
Regulation .25A amended effective January 2, 1994 (20:26 Md. R. 2027)
Regulation .35 repealed and new regulation .35 adopted effective January 12, 1987 (14:1 Md. R. 31)
Regulation .35 amended as an emergency provision effective June 27, 2012 (39:15 Md. R. 962); amended permanently effective October 1, 2012 (39:19 Md. R. 1236)
Chapter revised effective February 27, 2017 (44:4 Md. R. 254)