California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC |
Division 15. MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS ACT OF 1947 |
Part 3. MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS |
Chapter 5. Miscellaneous Dairy Products |
ARTICLE 36. Kefir Milk—A Cultured Milk |
Section 38872.
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Kefir shall contain not less than 3.5 percent milk fat. Reduced-fat kefir shall contain not more than 2.1 percent milk fat. Lowfat kefir shall contain not more than 1.2 percent milk fat. Nonfat, skim, or fat-free kefir shall contain a maximum of twenty hundredths of 1 percent milk fat.
Kefir made from goat milk shall contain not less than 2.8 percent of milk fat.
(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 329, Sec. 32. Effective August 21, 1997.)