Lowfat and Skim Milk Products, Lowfat and Nonfat Yogurt Products, Lowfat Cottage Cheese: Proposed Revocation of Standards of Identity; Food Labeling, Nutrient Content Claims for Fat, Fatty Acids and Cholesterol Content of Food

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing to remove the standards of identity for sweetened condensed skimmed milk, lowfat milk, skim (nonfat) milk, acidified lowfat milk, acidified skim (nonfat) milk, cultured lowfat milk, cultured skim (nonfat) milk, sour half-and-half, acidified sour half-and-half, lowfat yogurt, nonfat yogurt, and lowfat cottage cheese, based in part, on petitions filed jointly by the Milk Industry Foundation (MIF) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). FDA also is proposing to remove the standards of identity for evaporated skimmed milk and lowfat dry milk based on a petition filed by the American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI). Removal of these food standards of identity would permit the products covered by these regulations to be manufactured and labeled in accordance with the general definition and standard of identity (the general standard) in the regulations for foods named by use of a nutrient content claim and a standardized term. These products would then be named in a manner that is consistent with the agency's definitions of the terms ``lowfat'' and ``nonfat'' established in response to the Nutrition Labeling and Educati