210 CHEMICAL COMPOSITION 
Condensed Milk Standards.—Iederal condensed milk stand- 
ards were first assembled in connection with the I’ederal Food 
and Drugs Act, passed June, 1906, and which went in force Janu- 
ary 1, 1907.1. These standards provided that both, sweetened 
condensed milk and unsweetened condensed milk shall contain 
not less than 28 (twenty-eight) per cent milk solids, of which 
not less than 27.5 (twenty-seven and five-tenths) per cent. shall 
be milk fat. 
These standards have been modihed repeatedly since their 
introduction.'.7,* ‘The standards which have superseded them 
and their earlier modifications, and which are now in force are 
as follows: 
“Sweetened condensed milk, sweetened evaporated milk, 
Sweetened concentrated milk, is the product resulting from the 
evaporation of a considerable portion of the water from the 
whole, fresh, clean, lacteal secretion obtained by the complete 
milking of one or more healthy cows, properly fed and kept, 
excluding that obtained within fifteen davs before and ten days 
after calving, to which sugar (sucrose) has been added. It con- 
tains, all tolerances being allowed for, not less than twenty-eight 
per cent. (28%) of total milk solids, and not less than eight per 
cent. (8%) of milk fat.* 
“Unsweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk, concen- 
trated milk, is the product resulting from the evaporation of a 
considerable portion of the water from the whole, fresh, clean, 
lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more 
healthy cows, properly fed and kept, excluding that obtained 
within fifteen days before and ten days after calving, and con- 
tains, all tolerances being allowed for, not less than twenty-five 
and five-tenths per cent. (25.5%) of total solids and not less than 
seven and eight-tenths per cent. (7.86.) of milk fat.) 
“Sweetened condensed skimmed milk, sweetened evaporated 
skimmed milk, sweetened concentrated skimmed milk, is the 
product resulting from the evaporation of a considerable portion 
of the water from skimmed milk to which sugar (sucrose) has 
punted; SPepartment of Agriculture, Circular No. 19; also Hunziker, Purdue 
2U. S. Department of Agriculture, Food Inspection Decisions Nos. 131, 
1911; 2158, 1915; #170, 1917. 
8U. S. Department of Agriculture, Food Inspection Decision No. 158, 
April 2, 1915. 
