A. Health Authority: The Director, Arkansas Department of Health, or his/her designated representative.

B. Novelties: Frozen desserts, either alone or in combination with other foods such as cookies, wafers, cones, coating, confections, etc., which are packaged in single-serving units.

C. Overrun: The trade expression used to refer to the increase in volume of the frozen product over the volume of the mix. This increase in volume is due to air being whipped into the product during the freezing process. It is expressed as percent increase of the volume of the mix.

D. Pasteurization: The process of heating, in approved and properly operated equipment, every particle of mix to the following temperature and holding for the specified time: 155° F. for 30 minutes, or 175° F. for 25 seconds (or other time/temperature relationship which has been demonstrated to be equivalent thereto in microbial destruction).

E. Safe and Suitable: Ingredients approved by the Federal Food & Drug Administration for use in food for human consumption; which perform an appropriate function in the food in which they are used, and are used at a level no higher than necessary to achieve their intended purpose in the food.

F. Frozen Dessert: Any frozen substance, mixture, or compound as defined in Section II of this Regulation; or any frozen substance, mixture or compound made in semblance of any item set forth in Section II, but which does not conform in each and every particular to one of the stated definitions, and may be made from ingredients listed in the definitions in Section II and/or other safe and suitable ingredients. The substance, mixture or compound before freezing shall be known as a mix for the respective frozen dessert that results when the mix is frozen.