CODEX STAN 206-1999 General Standard for Use of Dairy Terms
1. SCOPE
This General Standard applies to the use of dairy terms in relation to foods to be offered to the consumer or for further processing.
2. DEFINITIONS
2.1 Milk is the normal mammary secretion of milking animals obtained from one or more milkings without either addition to it or extraction from it, intended for consumption as liquid milk or for further processing.
2.2 Milk product is a product obtained by any processing of milk, which may contain food additives, and other ingredients functionally necessary for the processing.
2.3 Composite milk product is a product of which the milk, milk products or milk constituents are an essential part in terms of quantity in the final product, as consumed provided that the constituents not derived from milk are not intended to take the place in part
or in whole of any milk constituent.
2.4 A reconstituted milk product is a product resulting from the addition of water to the dried or concentrated form of the product in the amount necessary to re-establish the appropriate water to solids ratio.
2.5 A recombined milk product is a product resulting from the combining of milkfat and milk-solids-non-fat in their preserved forms with or without the addition of water to achieve the appropriate milk product composition.
2.6 Dairy terms means names, designations, symbols, pictorial or other devices which refer to or are suggestive, directly or indirectly, of milk or milk products.
