1544                           LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 751

CHAPTER 751
(House Bill 1090)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 192 (a),
(b), (c-1), (g), and (h), and 193 (a) of Article 43 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1962 Supplement), title "Health," sub-
title "Adulteration of Food and Drink," subheading "Food and
Drug Law," providing for the legal sale of artificially sweetened
ice cream and ice milk and relating to requirements for such sale.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 192 (a), (b), (c-1), (g) and (h), and 193 (a) of
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1962 Supplement),
title "Health," subtitle "Adulteration of Food and Drink," subheading
"Food and Drug Law," be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

192.

(a) The standards for the quality, purity and strength of drugs
under Sections 187 to 197 of this subtitle shall be the standard set
by the United States Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary. In
case of foods and drugs not already standardized by the United States
Pharmacopoeia or the National Formulary, the standards of quality,
purity and strength prescribed by regulations lawfully adopted from
time to time [by the FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WEL-
FARE administrator of the Federal Security Agency, Food
and Drug Administration,] under the authority of section
403 (j) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, are
hereby declared to be the standards of quality, purity and strength
for such foods and drugs in the State of Maryland, except in the cases
of ice cream, artificially sweetened ice cream, artificially sweetened
ice milk, ice milk, frozen custard, sherbet, water ice or fruit ice,
milk products, stabilizer, artificial sweetener, imitation ice cream,
and quiescently frozen confections and quiescently frozen dairy con-
fections [, 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

per centum by weight of milk fat, and not less than twenty per cen-

tum 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.