Food & Agr. Code, § 38903 · Article 1. General Provisions
Food & Agr. Code, § 38903
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
This chapter does not apply to:
(a) Margarine, dairy spread, or spread subject to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 39351).
(b) A distinctive proprietary food compound which complies with all of the following requirements:
(1) Not readily mistaken in taste for milk, or for evaporated, skim, condensed, or dried milk.
(2) Prepared and designed for feeding infants and young children.
(3) Sold exclusively by druggists, orphanages, child welfare associations, hospitals, and similar institutions or for shipment outside of this state.
(c) Imitation ice cream and ice milk subject to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 39151).
(d) Any product resembling a milk product which resembling product is subjected to a temperature high enough to sterilize the product and is packaged in an hermetically sealed container.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1985, Ch. 512, Sec. 5.
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