The commissioner is authorized to establish specifications covering the principal constituents of any poultry food product with respect to which a specified name of the product or other labeling terminology may be used, whenever such action is necessary to prevent sale of the product under a false or deceptive name or other false or misleading labeling. The requirements of this section are hereby found to be necessary for this purpose.
Product containing light and dark chicken or turkey meat in quantities other than natural proportions, as indicated in table I, must have a qualifying statement in close conjunction with the name of the product indicating, as shown in table I of this subdivision, the types of meat actually used, except that when the product contains less than 10 percent cooked deboned poultry meat or is processed in a manner that the character of the light and dark meat is not distinguishable, the qualifying statement will not be required. The qualifying statement must be in type at least one-half the size and of equal boldness as the name of the product; e.g., boned turkey (dark meat). If a product contains light and dark meat in natural proportions and bears a label referring to light or dark meat content, the label shall include a qualifying statement in accordance with this subdivision.
TABLE I
Terminology | Percent light meat | Percent dark meat |
Natural proportions | 50-65 | 50-35 |
Light or white meat | 100 | 0 |
Dark meat | 0 | 100 |
Light and dark meat | 51-65 | 49-35 |
Dark and light meat | 35-49 | 65-51 |
Mostly white meat | 66 or more | 34 or less |
Mostly dark meat | 34 or less | 66 or more |
TABLE II
Product name | Minimum percent cooked deboned poultry meat of kind indicated, with skin, fat, and seasoning | Maximum percent liquid that may be added1 |
1. Boned (Kind)-Solid Pack | 95 | 5 |
2. Boned (Kind) | 90 | 10 |
3. Boned (Kind) with Broth2 | 80 | 20 |
4. Boned (Kind) with percent Broth2,3 | 50 | 50 |
5. Strained or Chopped (Kind) with Broth2,4 | 43 | 57 |
1 Liquid may be in the form of, but is not limited to, broth or extractives.
2 Alternatively, product may be prepared from raw boned poultry meat in combination with cooked boned poutlry meat so long as the product complies with the specified standard.
3 Total amount of liquid added shall be included in the name of the product; e.g., "Boned Chicken with 25 percent Broth".
4 Label must indicate in some manner that product is for infant or geriatric servings.
Poultry dinners (frozen) and pies shall meet the requirements set forth in table III of this paragraph and the percentage or weight shall be calculated on the basis of total ingredients used in the preparation of the products.
TABLE III
Product name | Minimum cooked deboned poultry meat of kind indicated | Minimum raw deboned poultry meat of kind indicated | |||||
Percent | Weight | Percent | Weight | ||||
(Kind) Pies | 14 | or | 1 1/8 oz. per | or | 25 | or | 2 oz. per |
8 oz. pie | 8 oz. pie | ||||||
(Kind) Dinners | 181, 2 | 22 oz. | - | - |
1 Excluding weight of appetizers, desserts, etc.
2 18 percent or two ounces, whichever is greater. A minimum of 45 percent, or five ounces per dinner, whichever is greater, of cooked poultry including bone and breading may be used in lieu of minimum 18 percent or two ounces of cooked deboned poultry meat and the cooked poultry including bone and breading shall not contain more than 30 percent breading.
Such product shall consist of 100 percent poultry meat of the kind indicated, with skin and fat not in excess of natural proportions. Product containing fillers or binders shall be named "(Kind) Patties".
TABLE IV
Product name1 | Minimum percent cooked deboned poultry meat of kind indicated | Minimum percent cooked poultry of kind indicated, including bone |
(Kind) Ravioli | 2 | - |
(Kind) Soup | 2 | - |
Chop Suey with (Kind) | 2 | - |
(Kind) Chop Suey | 4 | - |
(Kind) Chow Mein without noodles | 4 | - |
(Kind) Tamales | 6 | - |
Noodles or Dumplings with (Kind)2 | 6 | - |
(Kind) Stew | 12 | - |
(Kind) Fricassee of Wings | - | 40 |
(Kind) Noodles or Dumplings2 | 15 | 30 |
Creamed (Kind) | 20 | - |
(Kind) Cacciatore | 20 | 40 |
(Kind) Fricassee | 20 | 40 |
(Kind) A-La-King | 20 | - |
Sliced (Kind) with Gravy | 35 | - |
Minced (Kind) Barbecue | 40 | - |
Footnotes
1
The product name may contain other appropriate descriptive terms such as "noodle"; e.g., "Chicken Noodle Soup".
2 Product also includes rice or similar starches.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 1 § 340.2