The Florida Senate

601.9916  Addition of optional nutritive sweetening ingredients to concentrated orange juice; rules.--

(1)  The Department of Citrus, upon the affirmative vote of not less than nine members of the commission, is authorized to issue permits for the processing, shipping, and sale of frozen concentrated orange juice or concentrated orange juice for manufacturing to which has been added any of the following optional nutritive sweetening ingredients: sugar, sugar syrup, and invert sugar syrup.

(2)  Each processor to whom a permit is issued pursuant to this section shall comply with rules established by the Department of Citrus which rules shall provide that:

(a)  Such product shall be inspected immediately prior to the addition of the optional sweetening ingredient and shall be reinspected promptly after the addition of the optional sweetening ingredient.

(b)  If such product is to be stored, sold, or shipped in retail or institutional size containers of less than 1 gallon, it shall, when reconstituted according to label directions, contain not less than 12.8 percent by weight of orange juice soluble solids, exclusive of the weight of any added optional nutritive sweetening ingredient, and shall, each time it is inspected, fully conform to the rules and standards of the Department of Citrus applicable to frozen concentrated orange juice in retail or institutional size containers.

(c)  If such product is to be stored, sold, or shipped in bulk containers of 1 gallon or larger, it shall contain not less than 47 percent by weight of orange juice soluble solids, exclusive of the solids of any added optional sweetening ingredient, and shall, when reconstituted according to label directions, contain not less than 11.8 percent by weight of orange juice soluble solids, exclusive of any added optional nutritive sweetening ingredient, and shall, each time it is inspected, fully conform to the rules and standards of the Department of Citrus applicable to concentrated orange juice for manufacturing.

(d)  If any such product has been filled into bulk containers of 1 gallon or larger, it shall not thereafter be filled into retail or institutional size containers unless it fully conforms to the requirements of paragraph (b).

(e)  The product shall conform to such labeling requirements as the Department of Citrus shall by rule prescribe.

(3)  The privilege of processing any such product under a permit issued hereunder shall expire at the end of the shipping season for which such processing was authorized by such permit but may be renewed annually upon the affirmative vote of not less than nine members of the commission.

(4)  In addition to the disciplinary action that may be taken by the Department of Agriculture against a citrus fruit dealer for violations of this chapter, the commission may temporarily suspend and may revoke any permit issued hereunder for any violation of the provisions of this section or of the rules promulgated hereunder.

History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 67-19; ss. 1, 2, ch. 69-384; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 70-16; s. 1, ch. 70-439; s. 22, ch. 71-186; s. 1, ch. 75-11; s. 10, ch. 78-95.

Note.--Former s. 601.01171.