[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR145.126]

[Page 408-409]
 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                           SERVICES--CONTINUED
 
PART 145--CANNED FRUITS--Table of Contents
 
     Subpart B--Requirements for Specific Standardized Canned Fruits
 
Sec. 145.126  Artificially sweetened canned cherries.

    (a) Artificially sweetened canned cherries is the food which 
conforms to the definition and standard of identity prescribed for 
canned cherries by Sec. 145.125(a), except that in lieu of a packing 
medium specified in Sec. 145.125(a)(3), the packing medium used is water 
artificially sweetened with saccharin, sodium saccharin, or a 
combination of both. Such packing medium may be thickened with pectin 
and may contain any mixture of any edible organic salt or salts and any 
edible organic acid or acids as a flavor-enhancing agent, in a quantity 
not more than is reasonably required for that purpose.
    (b)(1) The specified name of the food is ``artificially sweetened 
______'', the blank being filled in with the name prescribed by 
Sec. 145.125(a) for canned cherries having the same optional cherry 
ingredient.
    (2) The artificially sweetened food is subject to the requirements 
for label statement of ingredients used, as prescribed for canned 
cherries by Sec. 145.125(a). If the packing medium is thickened with 
pectin, the label shall bear the statement ``thickened with pectin''. 
When any organic salt or acid or any mixture of two or more of these

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is added, the label shall bear the common or usual name of each such 
ingredient.

[42 FR 14414, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 58 FR 2879, Jan. 6, 1993]