1356                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 626

cept in the cases of ice cream, artificially sweetened ice cream, frozen
custard, sherbet, water ice or fruit ice, milk products, stabilizer,
artificial sweetener, imitation ice cream, and quiescently frozen con-
fections and quiescently frozen dairy confections, and ice milk, in
which cases the standards are declared to be as follows:

(b)

(i) Ice cream means the pure, clean, frozen products made from
a combination of "milk products," sugar, dextrose, corn syrup in dry
or liquid form, water, with or without egg or egg products, with
harmless flavoring and with or without harmless coloring, and with
or without added "stabilizer" or "emulsifier" composed of wholesome
edible material. It shall contain not more than one half of one per
centum by weight of "stabilizer" and not more than one fifth of one
per centum by weight of "emulsifier," not less than ten per centum
by weight of milk fat, and not less than twenty per centum by weight
of total milk solids; except when fruit, nuts, cocoa, chocolate, maple
syrup, cakes or confection are used for the purpose of flavoring,
then such reduction in milk fat and in total milk solids as is due to
the addition of such flavors shall be permitted, but in no such case
shall it contain less than eight per centum by weight of milk fat nor
less than sixteen per centum by weight of total milk solids. In no case
shall any ice cream weigh less than four and one-half pounds per
gallon and contain less than one and six-tenths (1.6) pounds of total
food solids per gallon.

(it) Artificially sweetened ice cream means the pure, clean, frozen
products made from a combination of milk products, sorbital, cycla-
mate calcium, a non-nutritive artificial sweetener for use only by
persons who must restrict their intake of ordinary sweets, with or
without egg or egg products, with harmless flavoring and with or
without harmless coloring, and with or without added stabilizer or
emulsifier composed of wholesome edible material. It shall contain
not more than one half of one per centum by weight of stabilizer and
not more than one fifth of one per centum by weight of emulsifier,
not less than ten per centum by weight of milk fat, and not less than
twenty per centum by weight of total milk solids; except when fruit,
nuts, cocoa, chocolate, maple syrup, cakes or confection are used for
the purpose of flavoring, said flavoring shall be sweetened only with
an artificial sweetener, then such reduction in milk fat and in total
milk solids as is due to the addition of such flavors shall be permitted,
but in no such case shall it contain less than eight per centum by
weight of milk fat, nor less than sixteen per centum by weight of
total milk solids. In no case shall any artificially sweetened ice cream
weigh less than four and one half pounds per gallon and contain less
than one and six-tenths (1.6) pounds of total food solids per gallon.

(iii) Subject to the standards provided by law or prescribed by
rules or regulations by the State Department of Health pursuant
thereto, any person may manufacture or prepare artificially sweet-
ened ice cream, containing an artificial sweetening agent approved
by the State Department of Health. The manufacturer shall place
the artificially sweetened ice cream only in pint packages or con-
tainers which shall be conspicuously labeled, "artificially sweetened"
immediately preceding the words "ice cream," in similar type at least
one-half the size of the type used for the words "ice cream" and on