|  | A |
SECTION A — HUMAN NECESSITIES

FOODSTUFFS AND TOBACCO

|  | A23 |
FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; THEIR TREATMENT NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CLASSES

|  | A23B |
PRESERVING, e.g. BY CANNING, MEAT, FISH, EGGS, FRUIT, VEGETABLES, EDIBLE SEEDS; CHEMICAL RIPENING OF FRUIT OR VEGETABLES; THE PRESERVED, RIPENED, OR CANNED PRODUCTS (preserving foodstuffs in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23L 3/00; preserving materials other than foodstuffs Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A61L; applying food preservatives in packages Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B65D 81/28)

|  | A23C |
DAIRY PRODUCTS, e.g. MILK, BUTTER, CHEESE; MILK OR CHEESE SUBSTITUTES; MAKING THEREOF (obtaining proteins from milk Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23J)

|  | A23C |
Note(s) This sub-class covers the chemical aspects of making dairy products. It also covers the apparatus used for performing techniques provided for therein, e.g. for concentration, evaporation, drying, preservation, or sterilisation, unless such apparatus is specifically provided for in another sub-class, e.g. Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01J for treatment of milk or cream for manufacture of butter or cheese. [3]

|  | A23D |
BUTTER SUBSTITUTES; EDIBLE OILS OR FATS (obtaining, refining, preserving Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C11B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C11C; hydrogenation Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...C11C 3/12)

|  | A23F |
COFFEE; TEA; THEIR SUBSTITUTES; MANUFACTURE, PREPARATION, OR INFUSION THEREOF (coffee or tea pots Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47G 19/14; tea infusers Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47G 19/16; coffee or tea making apparatus Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47J 31/00; coffee mills Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47J 42/00)

|  | A23G |
COCOA; CHOCOLATE; CONFECTIONERY; ICE-CREAM

|  | A23G |
Note(s) The term "ice-cream" includes any edible frozen or congealed semi-liquid or pasty substance, e.g. slush-ice. [2]

|  | A23J |
PROTEINS; PHOSPHATIDES

|  | A23K |
FODDER

|  | A23L |
FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS NOT COVERED BY SUB-CLASSES Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23B TO Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23J; THEIR PREPARATION, e.g. COOKING; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS IN GENERAL

|  | A23N |
MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES, OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING-STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01F 29/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B02C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B26B, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B26D)

|  | A23P |
SHAPING OR WORKING OF FOODSTUFFS, NOT FULLY COVERED BY A SINGLE OTHER SUB-CLASS (shaping substances in a plastic state in general Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B29C)

|  | A23P |
Note(s) Other sub-classes of interest in connection with the shaping or working of foodstuffs include Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A01J, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A21C, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A22C, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A47J, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B02C, in addition to other sub-classes of Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...A23.