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standards of identity
noun
Plural of standard of identity
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It's clear from Mort Rosenblum's June 25 Op-Ed article, "Chocolate Fake," and the Food and Drug Administration's review of standards of identity for many foods: people are passionate about chocolate.
The report concluded that there was no assurance at the Puerto Rico plant "that the current laboratory controls are adequate to assure that drug products conform to appropriate standards of identity, strength, quality and purity".
Since this is not helpful, we turn to a spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration, the guardian of "standards of identity," who explained the distinction in a written response: "Ice cream requires specific levels of milk fat content, nonfat milk solids content, total solids in each gallon of ice cream, and total weight in each gallon of ice cream, while frozen dairy products do not".
The product can't legally be called milk, however, because FDA has standards of identity that specifically define milk as lacteal secretions from a cow.
The consumption of saccharin, particularly in North America, began to escalate when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration set new standards of identity which allowed foods containing artificial sweeteners to be promoted as "nonnutritive" or "noncaloric" sweeteners for use by the general public.
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The standard-of-identity laws are there for a reason.
It is a cultural cipher, a malleable, claimable standard of identity, innovation, and taste.
Our repeated testing of this item proves it meets federal regulations for its standard of identity.
Yet when it comes to debating the standard of identity for chocolate, a dash of perspective is needed.
Where will the "gold standard" of identity be then, what with the well-known problems of shoulder surfing and technical cracking that pins are exposed to?
His only examples were Englishmen such as George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, who could go out into the world, to Paris, to Burma, and always have their homeland as a point of reference, a standard of identity.
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