[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR133.167]

[Page 345]
 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
CHAPTER I--FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                          SERVICES (CONTINUED)
 
PART 133_CHEESES AND RELATED CHEESE PRODUCTS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart B_Requirements for Specific Standardized Cheese and Related 
                                Products
 
Sec.  133.167  Pasteurized blended cheese.

    Pasteurized blended cheese conforms to the definition and standard 
of identity, and is subject to the requirements for label statement of 
ingredients, prescribed for pasteurized process cheese by Sec.  133.169, 
except that:
    (a) In mixtures of two or more cheeses, cream cheese or neufchatel 
cheese may be used.
    (b) None of the ingredients prescribed or permitted for pasteurized 
process cheese by Sec.  133.169 (c) and (d)(1) is used.
    (c) In case of mixtures of two or more cheeses containing cream 
cheese or neufchatel cheese, the moisture content is not more than the 
arithmetical average of the maximum moisture contents prescribed by the 
definitions and standards of identity for the varieties of cheeses 
blended, for which such limits have been prescribed.
    (d) The word ``process'' is replaced by the word ``blended'' in the 
name prescribed by Sec.  133.169(e).

[42 FR 14366, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 58 FR 2894, Jan. 6, 1993]