2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 417 - General Provisions. Pure Food and Drugs
Section 21a-48 - (Formerly Sec. 19-194a). Frozen desserts; definitions.

When used in sections 21a-49 to 21a-59, inclusive, the following terms shall have the meanings hereinafter specified:

(1) “Frozen dessert plant” means any place, premises or establishment and any part thereof where frozen desserts and frozen dessert mixes are assembled, processed, manufactured or converted into form for distribution or sale, and rooms and premises where frozen dessert or frozen dessert mix manufacturing equipment is washed, sterilized or kept.

(2) “Wholesale manufacturer” means a person who manufactures frozen desserts or frozen dessert mixes for sale or distribution, otherwise than for retail sale directly to the consumer on the premises where manufactured.

(3) “Retail manufacturer” means a person who manufactures frozen desserts for retail sale directly to the consumer on the premises where manufactured.

(4) “Frozen desserts” means ice cream, French ice cream, frozen custard, ice milk, frozen dietary dairy dessert, including special dietary dairy desserts containing nutritive sweeteners, fruit sherbet, water ices, quiescently frozen confection, quiescently frozen dairy confection, quiescently frozen whipped cream confection, frozen whipped cream, freezer made milk shakes, French custard ice cream, nonfruit sherbet, nonfruit water ices, manufactured dessert mix, frozen confection, mellorine frozen dessert, parevine, frozen yogurt, freezer made shakes, lo-mel, and dietary frozen desserts as all such products are commonly known, together with any mix used in such frozen desserts and any products which are similar in appearance, odor or taste to such products, or are prepared or frozen as frozen desserts are customarily prepared or frozen, whether made with dairy products or nondairy products.

(5) “Frozen dessert mix” means any unfrozen mixture to be used in the manufacture of frozen desserts or milk shakes offered for sale or resale.

(6) “Quiescently frozen confection”, “quiescently frozen dairy confection”, “quiescently frozen whipped cream confection”, and “frozen whipped cream” and standards of identity for frozen desserts and frozen dessert mixes, shall be defined by regulations promulgated under authority of section 21a-58.

(1961, P.A. 154, S. 2; February, 1965, P.A. 121; 1967, P.A. 876, S. 1; P.A. 73-46; P.A. 76-240, S. 1.)

History: 1965 act changed definition of wholesale manufacturer from “a person who manufactures frozen desserts or frozen dessert mixes any of which is sold to another for resale or manufacturing purposes” and retail manufacturer from “any manufacturer of frozen desserts who is not defined as a wholesale manufacturer”; 1967 act added “frozen dietary dairy dessert” to Subsec. (4); P.A. 73-46 redefined “frozen desserts” to include special dietary dairy desserts, containing nutritive sweeteners and freezer made milk shakes; P.A. 76-240 deleted reference to “imitation ice cream” in definitions of “frozen desserts” and “quiescently frozen confection” and included as frozen desserts “French custard ice cream, nonfruit sherbet, nonfruit water ices ... whether made with dairy products or nondairy products”; Sec. 19-194a transferred to Sec. 21a-48 in 1983.