[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR137.185]
[Page 375-376]
TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES (CONTINUED)
PART 137_CEREAL FLOURS AND RELATED PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
Subpart B_Requirements for Specific Standardized Cereal Flours and
Related Products
Sec. 137.185 Enriched self-rising flour.
Enriched self-rising flour conforms to the definition and standard
of identity, and is subject to the requirements for label statement of
ingredients, prescribed for self-rising flour by Sec. 137.180, except
that:
(a) It contains in each pound 2.9 milligrams of thiamin, 1.8
milligrams of riboflavin, 24 milligrams of niacin, 0.7 milligrams of
folic acid, and 20 milligrams of iron.
(b) It contains added calcium in such quantity that the total
calcium content is 960 milligrams per pound. If a
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calcium compound is added for technical purposes to give self-rising
characteristics to the flour, the amount of calcium per pound of flour
may exceed 960 milligrams provided that the excess is no greater than
necessary to accomplish the intended effect. However, if such calcium is
insufficient to meet the 960-milligram level, no claim may be made on
the label for calcium as a nutrient.
(c) The requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section will
be deemed to have been met if reasonable overages of the vitamins and
minerals, within the limits of good manufacturing practice, are present
to insure that the required levels of the vitamins and minerals are
maintained throughout the expected shelf life of the food under
customary conditions of distribution and storage. The quantitative
content of the following vitamins shall be calculated in terms of the
following chemically identifiable reference forms:
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Referemce form
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Vitamin Empirical Molecular
Name formula weight
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Thiamine.................... Thiamine C12H17ClN4OS[m 337.28
chloride iddot]HCl
hydrochloride.
Riboflavin.................. Riboflavin..... C17H20N4O6 376.37
Niacin...................... Niacin......... C6H5NO2 123.11
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(d) It may contain not more than 5 percent by weight of wheat germ
or partly defatted wheat germ;
(e) When calcium is added as dicalcium phosphate, such dicalcium
phosphate is also considered to be an acid-reacting substance;
(f) When calcium is added as carbonate, the method set forth in
Sec. 137.180(c) does not apply as a test for carbon dioxide evolved;
but in such case the quantity of carbon dioxide evolved under ordinary
conditions of use of the enriched self-rising flour is not less than 0.5
percent of the weight thereof;
(g) All ingredients from which the food is fabricated shall be safe
and suitable. The vitamins and minerals added to the food for enrichment
purposes may be supplied by any safe and suitable substances. Niacin
equivalents as derived from tryptophan content shall not be used in
determining total niacin content.
[42 FR 14402, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 43 FR 38578, Aug. 29, 1978;
46 FR 43414, Aug. 28, 1981; 58 FR 2877, Jan. 6, 1993; 61 FR 8796, Mar.
5, 1996]
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