[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR136.110]

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                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 136--BAKERY PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart B--Requirements for Specific Standardized Bakery Products
 
Sec. 136.110  Bread, rolls, and buns.


    (a) Bread, white bread, and rolls, white rolls, or buns, and white 
buns are the foods produced by baking mixed yeast-leavened dough 
prepared from one or more of the farinaceous ingredients listed in 
paragraph (c)(1) of this section and one or more of the moistening 
ingredients listed in paragraphs (c) (2), (6), (7), and (8) of this 
section and one or more of the leavening agents provided for by 
paragraph (c)(3) of this section. The food may contain additional 
ingredients as provided for by paragraph (c) of this section. Each of 
the finished foods contains not less than 62 percent total solids as 
determined by the method prescribed in paragraph (d) of this section.
    (b) All ingredients from which the food is fabricated shall be safe 
and suitable.
    (c) The following optional ingredients are provided for:
    (1) Flour, bromated flour, phosphated flour, or a combination of two 
or more of these. The potassium bromate in any bromated flour used and 
the monocalcium phosphate in any phosphated flour used are deemed to be 
additional optional ingredients in the bread, rolls, or buns. All 
ingredients in any flour, bromated flour, or phosphated flour used are 
deemed to be optional ingredients of the bread, rolls, or buns prepared 
therefrom.
    (2) Water.
    (3) Yeast--any type which produces the necessary leavening effect.
    (4) Salt.
    (5) Shortening, in which or in conjunction with which may be used 
one or any combination of two or more of the following:
    (i) Lecithin, hydroxylated lecithin complying with the provisions of 
part 172 of this chapter, either of which may include related 
phosphatides derived from the corn oil or soybean oil from which such 
ingredients were obtained.
    (ii) Mono- and diglycerides of fat-forming fatty acids, diacetyl 
tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fat-forming fatty 
acids, propylene glycol mono- and diesters of fat-forming fatty acids, 
and other ingredients that perform a similar function.
    (6) Milk and/or other dairy products in such quantity and 
composition as not to meet the requirements for milk and/or other dairy 
products prescribed for milk bread by Sec. 136.130. Whenever nonfat milk 
solids in any form are used, carrageenan or salts of carrageenan 
complying with the provisions of part 172 of this chapter may be used in 
a quantity not in excess of 0.8 percent by weight of such nonfat milk 
solids.
    (7) Egg products.
    (8) Nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners.
    (9) Enzyme active preparations.
    (10) Lactic-acid-producing bacteria.

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    (11) Nonwheat flours, nonwheat meals, nonwheat grits, wheat and 
nonwheat starches, any of which may be wholly or in part dextrinized, 
dextrinized wheat flour, or any combination of 2 or more of these, if 
the total quantity is not more than 3 parts for each 100 parts by weight 
of flour used.
    (12) Ground dehulled soybeans which may be heat-treated, and from 
which oil may be removed, but which retain enzymatic activity, if the 
quantity is not more than 0.5 part for each 100 parts by weight of flour 
used.
    (13) Yeast nutrients and calcium salts, if the total quantity of 
such ingredients, with the exception of monocalcium phosphate and 
calcium propionate, is not more than 0.25 part for each 100 parts by 
weight of flour used. The quantity of monocalcium phosphate, including 
any quantity in the flour used, is not more than 0.75 part for each 100 
parts by weight of flour used. Any calcium propionate used as a 
preservative in bread, rolls, or buns is not subject to the limitation 
prescribed in this paragraph.
    (14)(i) Potassium bromate, calcium bromate, potassium iodate, 
calcium iodate, calcium peroxide, or any combination of 2 or more of 
these if the total quantity, including the potassium bromate in any 
bromated flour used, is not more than 0.0075 part for each 100 parts by 
weight of flour used.
    (ii) Azodicarbonamide, if the total quantity, including any quantity 
in the flour used, is not more than 0.0045 part for each 100 parts by 
weight of flour used.
    (15) Dough strengtheners and other dough conditioners not listed or 
referred to in this paragraph, if the total quantities of such 
ingredients or combination is not more than 0.5 part for each 100 parts 
by weight of flour used.
    (16) Spices, spice oil, and spice extract.
    (17) Coloring may not be added as such or as part of another 
ingredient except as permitted by paragraph (c)(16) of this section and 
except that coloring which may be present in butter or margarine if the 
intensity of the butter or margarine color does not exceed ``medium 
high'' (MH) when viewed under diffused light (7400 Kelvin) against the 
Munsell Butter Color Comparator. The MH designation corresponds to the 
Munsell renotation of 3.8Y7.9/7.6.
    (18) Other ingredients that do not change the basic identity or 
adversely affect the physical and nutritional characteristics of the 
food.
    (d) Total solids are determined by the method prescribed in 
``Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical 
Chemists,'' 13th Ed. (1980), section 14.091(a), which is incorporated by 
reference, except that if the baked unit weighs 454 grams (1 pound) or 
more, one entire unit is used for the determination; if the baked unit 
weighs less than 454 grams, enough units to weigh 454 grams or more are 
used. Copies of the material incorporated by reference may be obtained 
from the Association of Official Analytical Chemists International, 481 
North Frederick Ave., suite 500, Gaithersburg, MD 20877-2504, or may be 
examined at the Office of the Federal Register, 800 North Capitol 
Street, NW., suite 700, Washington, DC.
    (e)(1) The name of the food is ``bread'', ``white bread'', 
``rolls'', ``white rolls'', ``buns'', ``white buns'', as applicable. 
When the food contains not less than 2.56 percent by weight of whole egg 
solids, the name of the food may be ``egg bread'', ``egg rolls'', or 
``egg buns'', as applicable, accompanied by the statement ``Contains 
____ medium-sized egg(s) per pound'' in the manner prescribed by 
Sec. 102.5(c)(3) of this chapter, the blank to be filled in with the 
number which represents the whole egg content of the food expressed to 
the nearest one-fifth egg but not greater than the amount actually 
present. For the purpose of this regulation, whole egg solids are the 
edible contents of eggs calculated on a moisture-free basis and 
exclusive of any nonegg solids which may be present in standardized and 
other commercial egg products. One medium-sized egg is equivalent to 
0.41 ounce of whole egg solids.
    (2) When the label bears any representation, other than in the 
ingredient listing, of the presence of egg in the food, e.g., the word 
egg or any phonetic equivalent spelling of the word egg, or a picture of 
an egg, the food

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shall contain not less than 2.56 percent of whole egg solids.
    (f) Label declaration. Each of the ingredients used shall be 
declared on the label as required by the applicable sections of parts 
101 and 130 of this chapter.

[42 FR 14400, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 43 FR 47177, Oct. 13, 1978; 
47 FR 11826, Mar. 19, 1982; 49 FR 10096, Mar. 19, 1984; 49 FR 13692, 
Apr. 6, 1984; 54 FR 24894, June 12, 1989; 58 FR 2877, Jan. 6, 1993; 63 
FR 14035, Mar. 24, 1998]