Food Standards of Identity Modernization; Pasteurized Orange Juice

What it does

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or we) is issuing a final rule to amend the standard of identity for pasteurized orange juice by lowering the minimum orange juice soluble solids content from 10.5[deg] to 10[deg] Brix and permitting up to 15 percent Citrus reticulata juice or Citrus reticulata hybrid juice, by volume. This final rule modernizes the pasteurized orange juice standard. This action responds to two citizen petitions: one submitted by the Florida Citrus Processors Association Inc. and the Florida Citrus Mutual Inc., and another submitted by the Florida Department of Citrus, the Florida Citrus Mutual, and the Juice Products Association.

The Food and Drug Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

21 CFR 146

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Food and Drug Administration has published 100 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 68 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0910-AI98 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• Aug. 6, 2025 Proposed rule. Food Standards of Identity Modernization; Pasteurized Orange Juice

What happens next and when

This rule is effective August 19, 2026. This compliance date is August 19, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket FDA-2022-P-1668 on Regulations.gov
• Title 21 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register