Frozen Desserts: Removal of Standards of Identity for Ice Milk and Goat's Milk Ice Milk; Amendment of Standards of Identity for Ice Cream and Frozen Custard and Goat's Milk Ice Cream

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending its regulations to remove the standard of identity for ice milk; to amend the standard of identity for ice cream and frozen custard to provide for the use in these foods of safe and suitable sweeteners and of skim milk that may be concentrated, and from which part or all of the lactose has been removed by a safe and suitable procedure; and to amend the standard of identity for ice cream and frozen custard to provide for the optional use of hydrolyzed milk proteins as stabilizers in the food at a level not to exceed 3 percent by weight to ice cream mix containing not less that 20 percent total milk solids, provided that any whey and modified whey products used contribute, singly or in combination, not more than 25 percent by weight of the total nonfat milk solids content of the finished food. To ensure consistency with the removal of the standard of identity for ice milk and the changes in the standard of identity for ice cream and frozen custard, FDA also is removing the standard of identity for goat's milk ice milk and making comparable changes in the standard of identity for goat's milk ice cream, which cross-references the stand