December 15, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration received objections and requests on the final rule titled ``Milk and Cream Products and Yogurt Products; The final rule revoked and amended the standards with effective January 17, 2023 with key points as follows:
- To permit vitamin D addition such that yogurt contains at least 10 percent DV per RACC of
vitamin D, within limits of current good manufacturing practices. - To permit both nutritive sweeteners and non-nutritive sweeteners, under the term ``sweeteners,''
as optional ingredients in yogurt. - Denied addition of cream after culturing.
- Denied 3.25 percent minimum milkfat requirement and the use of fat-containing flavoring ingredients to replace milkfat in yogurt and lower fat yogurt.
- To permit fat-containing flavouring ingredients in lower fat yogurt above the required minimum
milkfat content and to permit the manufacture of yogurt with milkfat content less than 3.25 percent but at least 2.44 percent. - Denied use of UF milk as a basic dairy ingredient in yogurt.
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