CHAPTER 554

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-691, 3-692, 3-694 and 8-696 of the Code
of Virginia, relating to vinegar.
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Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: oo
1. That §§ 3-691, 3-692, 3-694 and 3-696 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3-691. The terms “cider vinegar’ and “apple vinegar” or words
of similar import, shall be construed to mean the product made exclusively
from the expressed juice of washed, fresh, whole apples or portions thereof
by alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentations.

The terms “wine vinegar” and “grape vinegar’ or words of similar
import, shall be construed to mean the product made by the alcoholic and
subsequent acetous fermentations of the expressed juice of fresh whole
grapes or portions thereof.

The term “malt vinegar’ or words of similar import, shall be con-
strued to mean the product made by the alcoholic and subsequent acetous
fermentations, without distillation, of an infusion of barley malt or cereals
whose starch has been converted by malt.

The term “sugar vinegar” or words of similar import, shall be con-
strued to mean the product made by the alcoholic and subsequent acetous
fermentations, without distillation, of solutions of sugar, syrup, molasses
or refiners’ syrup.

The terms “glucose vinegar” or “corn sugar vinegar” or words of
similar import, shall be construed to mean the product made by the alco-
holic and subsequent acetous fermentations, without distillation, of solu-
tions of corn sugar or glucose prepared from corn starch.

The terms “spirit vinegar’, “distilled vinegar” or “grain vinegar” or
words of similar import, shall be construed to mean the product made by
the acetous fermentation of dilute distilled alcohol derived from grain,
sugar, Syrup, molasses or refiners’ syrup.

The term “evaporated apple products vinegar” or “vinegar made from
evaporated apple products”, or words of similar import, shall be construed
to mean the product made by the alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermen-
tations of the aqueous extract obtained from clean, sound dried apples,
dried chopped apples or dried apple skins or cores.

§ 3-692. Vinegar which fails to comply with such definitions or
which contains any substance or ingredient not derived exclusively from
the fruit, grain, sugar or syrup from which it shall so be made, or which
is composed of a compound or mixture of vinegars made from fruit, grain,
sugar and syrup, or any two or more of the same, wvless its label bears a
principal title differing from any of the named substances and clearly
identifies the ingredients in the order of their predominance in the mixture,
or which contains less than four grams of acetic acid in one hundred cubic
centimeters of the vinegar at twenty degrees centigrade, shall be deemed
adulterated.

§ 3-694. Packages containing vinegar which has been reduced with
water must be plainly marked * to indicate the acidity to which it has been
reduced and the sale of any vinegar containing less than 4 per centum acid
strength is prohibited.

§ 3-696. No person, firm or corporation shall * sell in this State,
offer to sell in * this State, or have in possession for sale in this State:
defi (1) Any vinegar defined in § 3-691 which does not comply with such

initions.
(2) Any adulterated or misbranded vinegar.

(3) Any vinegar or product in imitation of any vinegar so defined.

(4) Any vinegar to which any artificial coloring matter has been
added of any kind whatever, or which contains any substance or ingredient
not derived exclusively from the fruit, grain, sugar or syrup from which
it purports to have been derived.