414 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



HOMOGENIZED PRODUCTS. 



During certain seasons of the year, there is a scarcity of cream 

 suitable for ice cream making purposes. This scarcity has caused 

 the development of the use of the homogenizer and other devices, 

 which are used to reincorporate butter fat with milk serum, either 

 skim milk, natural, or that made by mixing skim milk powder and 

 water. 



This department is in favor of the use of any device or idea 

 which will help simplify food producing and distributing prob- 

 lems, but highly disfavors any practice which tends to discourage 

 cleanliness and the use of high grade products to accomplish this 

 result. 



Inferior grades of butter should not be allowed to be incorpor- 

 ated in milk and the product put on the market and sold in com- 

 petition with the pure, fresh article produced under sanitary con- 

 ditions. It is the intention of this department to have a law enacted 

 regarding the handling of homogenized products, which shall be 

 similar to the ruling issued last May. This ruling is as follows : 



"Any product prepared by passing cream through an apparatus 

 which increases its viscosity, and said product contains not less 

 than sixteen per cent of milk fat by weight shall be known and 

 sold under the name 'Homogenized Cream.' 



Any product prepared by passing wholesome milk fat together 

 with milk, skim milk, or skim milk powder, through an appar- 

 atus, which will cause the products to unite, forming a product 

 having a semblance of cream, and containing not less than 16 per 

 cent of milk fat by weight, shall be known and sold under the 

 name 'Homogenized Process Cream.' 



Any product prepared in the semblance of ice cream, which has 

 been made in whole or in part from homogenized process cream 

 and said product contains not less than 12 per cent by weight of 

 milk fat, shall be known and sold under the name, 'Homogenized 

 Process Ice Cream.' 



Each container of said homogenized products shall be distinctly 

 labeled with the true name of said product as herein specified, 

 together with the name of the manufacturer or producer thereof. ' ' 



