The Juice HACCP regulation applies to processors, repackers, or importers of juice sold at wholesale (sold or distributed to other business entities) including:
- 100% juice or juice concentrates (including persons using pasteurized or otherwise treated juice ingredients)
- Fruit or vegetable purees
- Non-Juice Beverage with a juice ingredient (e.g, lemonade using fresh squeezed lemon juice). NOTE: For beverages containing less than 100% juice, only the fresh juice ingredient is subject to HACCP principles
- Juice produced and sold within the same state as well as juice sold in interstate commerce
- Juice importers
The Juice HACCP regulation does NOT apply to:
- Juice produced at a retail establishment and sold exclusively and directly to consumers (e.g., stores, roadside stands, farmers markets, juice bars, etc.)
- Juice beverages (<100% juice) using only treated (i.e., pasteurized) juice ingredients which were produced under juice HACCP principles (e.g., juice beverage produced from a pasteurized concentrate or lemonade produced from pasteurized lemon juice)
- Fruit or vegetable by-products (e.g., citrus oil)
- Juice ingredient used in the production of a non-beverage food (e.g., fruit flavored candy)
- Beverages using whole fruits or vegetables without juice extraction (e.g., smoothies)
- Warehousing or storage of the juice only (without processing)
- Harvesting, picking, or transporting raw agricultural ingredients of juice products without otherwise engaging in processing
- Juice used solely as a starting material for a fermented alcoholic product (Ex. wine or hard cider) in which the juice becomes an alcoholic beverage and is no longer recognizable as juice at the time processing is complete
