Food and Drug Regulations

B.08.062 [S]. Ice Cream

• (a) shall be the frozen food obtained by freezing an ice cream mix, with or without the incorporation of air;

• (b) may contain cocoa or chocolate syrup, fruit, nuts or confections;

• (c) shall contain not less than

  • (i) 36 per cent solids,

  • (ii) 10 per cent milk fat, or, where cocoa or chocolate syrup, fruit, nuts, or confections have been added, eight per cent milk fat, and

  • (iii) 180 grams of solids per litre of which amount not less than 50 grams shall be milk fat, or, where cocoa or chocolate syrup, fruit, nuts or confections have been added, 180 grams of solids per litre of which amount not less than 40 grams shall be milk fat; and

• (d) shall contain not more than

  • (i) 100,000 bacteria per gram, and

  • (ii) 10 coliform organisms per gram,

  as determined by official method MFO-2, Microbiological Examination of Ice Cream or Ice Milk, November 30, 1981.