Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 216 - Department of health
Chapter 50 - Environmental health
Subchapter 10 - Food Protection
Part 4 - Good Manufacturing Practices for Food (216-RICR-50-10-4)
Section 216-RICR-50-10-4.8 - SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS FOR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, DRINKS AND JUICES

A. All persons manufacturing or bottling for sale or to sell or offer for sale any carbonated or nonalcoholic beverage, soda water, fruit juice, syrup, bottled drinking water either plain or carbonated, or any other so-called soft drink, must obtain a permit from RIDOH.

B. No carbonated or nonalcoholic beverage, soda water, fruit juice, syrup, bottled drinking water either plain or carbonated, or any other so-called soft drink, which has been manufactured outside of this state shall be sold or offered for sale within this state unless the person, firm, or corporation manufacturing or bottling it for sale holds a permit to do so from RIDOH.

C. Any person applying for a permit to bottle or manufacture apple cider shall certify that he or she does not manufacture or bottle any carbonated or nonalcoholic beverage, soda water, fruit juice, syrup, bottled drinking water, either plain or carbonated, or any other so-called soft drink, other than apple cider. Permits shall not apply to any person who manufactures and bottles during any one calendar year not exceeding five hundred (500) gallons of cider.

D. All persons who operate with non-alcoholic beverages, drinks and juices and/or processing facility shall comply with R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 21-23 and these Regulations.