Dairy Products Regulations

51 (1) For the purposes of this section, frozen dairy product means ice cream, light ice cream, ice milk and frozen dairy dessert.

(2) Frozen Dairy Product

• (a) shall be the frozen food obtained by the freezing of a mix for a frozen dairy product, with or without the incorporation of air, and may contain

  • (i) cocoa or chocolate syrup,

  • (ii) fruit, nuts and confections, and

  • (iii) in the case of a product labelled or marketed as frozen dairy dessert, fruit juice; and

• (b) shall contain not more than

  • (i) 100,000 bacteria per gram, or

  • (ii) 10 coliform organisms per gram.

(3) A frozen dairy product the common name of which is set out in Column I of an item of the table to this section shall contain percentages and quantities of solids and percentages of milk fat that fall within the minimum and maximum percentages and quantities set out in Column II or III of that item, depending on whether the frozen dairy product contains cocoa, chocolate syrup, fruit, nuts or confections.

(4) Where a frozen dairy product contains percentages and quantities of solids and percentages of milk fat that fall within the minimum and maximum percentages and quantities set out in Column II or III of an item of the table to this section, the common name set out in Column I of that item shall be used in any advertisement of the frozen dairy product.

(5) In the table to this section, > means greater than.