Food and Agricultural Code section 39501

Dairy spread is a substitute for butter which is made from a blend of milkfat, cultured buttermilk, milk solids-not-fat, and edible oil or fat, other than milk fat. Dairy spread may contain one or more of the following optional ingredients: salt, harmless flavor and color, any safe and suitable stabilizers and emulsifiers, and vitamins.

Source: Section 39501, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=FAC§ionNum=39501. (updated Jan. 1, 1985; accessed Jul. 7, 2025).

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Original Source: Section 39501, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=FAC§ionNum=39501. (last accessed May 12, 2025).