21 CFR Part 139 — Macaroni and Noodle Products

TL;DR — The federal standards of identity for pasta — what may legally be called macaroni.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. US federal government work (17 USC §105).

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Part 139.

A standard of identity defines what a food must contain to bear a name. Part 139 specifies, in law, the permitted ingredients and proportions of macaroni and noodle products.

Standards of identity are a strange and under-examined corner of regulation — the state fixing the meaning of ordinary words, with amendment dates stretching back to 1977 recorded in the margin.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

11 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.