Food and Agricultural Code section 38181

Skim milk, nonfat milk, or fat-free milk is the product that results from the complete or partial removal of milk fat from milk. It shall contain not more than twenty hundredths of 1 percent of milk fat and not less than 9 percent of milk solids not fat, except that milk produced and marketed pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 35921) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of this division as skim milk shall contain not more than twenty hundredths of 1 percent of milk fat and not less than 8.5 percent of milk solids not fat.

Source: Section 38181, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=FAC§ionNum=38181.­ (updated Aug. 21, 1997; accessed Sep. 7, 2026).

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