Standards of Identity for Dairy Products
This page contains the Standards of Identity for Milk and Cream, Cheese and Related Cheese Products, and Frozen Desserts that are listed in the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Standards of identity are legal definitions of food products. The standards can be accessed on the internet by clicking on the links below.
Part 131 – Milk and Cream
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131.3 Definitions
131.25 Whipped cream products containing flavoring or sweetening
131.110 Milk
131.111 Acidified milk
131.112 Cultured milk
131.115 Concentrated milk
131.120 Sweetened condensed milk
131.125 Nonfat dry milk
131.127 Nonfat dry milk fortified with vitamins A and D
131.130 Evaporated milk
131.147 Dry whole milk
131.149 Dry cream
131.150 Heavy cream
131.155 Light cream
131.157 Light whipping cream
131.160 Sour cream
131.162 Acidified sour cream
131.170 Eggnog
131.180 Half-and-half
131.200 Yogurt
131.203 Lowfat yogurt
131.206 Nonfat yogurt
Part 133 – Cheeses and Related Cheese Products
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133.3 Definitions
133.5 Methods of analysis
133.10 Notice to manufacturers, packers, and distributors of pasteurized blended cheese, pasteurized process cheese, cheese food, cheese spread, and related foods
133.102 Asiago fresh and asiago soft cheese
133.103 Asiago medium cheese
133.104 Asiago old cheese
133.106 Blue cheese
133.108 Brick cheese
133.109 Brick cheese for manufacturing
133.111 Caciocavallo siciliano cheese
133.113 Cheddar cheese
133.114 Cheddar cheese for manufacturing
133.116 Low sodium cheddar cheese
133.118 Colby cheese
133.119 Colby cheese for manufacturing
133.121 Low sodium colby cheese
131.123 Cold-pack and club cheese
133.124 Cold-pack cheese food
133.125 Cold-pack cheese food with fruits, vegetables, or meats
133.127 Cook cheese, kock kaese
133.128 Cottage cheese
133.129 Dry curd cottage cheese
133.133 Cream cheese
133.134 Cream cheese with other foods
133.136 Washed curd and soaked curd cheese
133.137 Washed curd cheese for manufacturing
133.138 Edam cheese
133.140 Gammelost cheese
133.141 Gorgonzola cheese
133.142 Gouda cheese
133.144 Granular and stirred curd cheese
133.145 Granular cheese for manufacturing
133.146 Grated cheeses
133.147 Grated American cheese food
133.148 Hard grating cheeses
133.149 Gruyere cheese
133.150 Hard cheeses
133.152 Limburger cheese
133.153 Monterey cheese and monterey jack cheese
133.154 High-moisture jack cheese
133.155 Mozzarella cheese and scamorza cheese
133.158 Low-moisture part-skim mozzarella and scamorza cheese
133.160 Muenster and munster cheese
133.161 Muenster and munster cheese for manufacturing
133.162 Neufchatel cheese
133.164 Nuworld cheese
133.165 Parmesan and reggiano cheese
133.167 Pasteurized blended cheese
133.168 Pasteurized blended cheese with fruits, vegetables, or meats
133.169 Pasteurized process cheese
133.170 Pasteurized process cheese with fruits, vegetables, or meats
133.171 Pasteurized process pimento cheese
133.173 Pasteurized process cheese food
133.174 Pasteurized process cheese food with fruits, vegetables, or meats
133.175 Pasteurized cheese spread
133.176 Pasteurized cheese spread with fruits, vegetables, or meats
133.178 Pasteurized neufchatel cheese spread with other foods
133.179 Pasteurized process cheese spread
133.180 Pasteurized process cheese spread with fruits, vegetables, or meats
133.181 Provolone cheese
133.182 Soft ripened cheese
133.183 Romano cheese
133.184 Roquefort cheese, sheep's milk blue-mold, and blue-mold cheese from sheep's milk
133.185 Samsoe cheese
133.186 Sap sago cheese
133.187 Semisoft cheeses
133.188 Semisoft part-skim cheeses
133.189 Skim milk cheese for manufacturing
133.190 Spiced cheeses
133.191 Part-skim spiced cheeses
133.193 Spiced, flavored standardized cheeses
133.195 Swiss and emmentaler cheese
133.196 Swiss cheese for manufacturing
Part 135 – Frozen Desserts
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135.3 Definitions
135.110 Ice cream and frozen custard
135.115 Goat's milk ice cream
135.130 Mellorine
135.140 Sherbet
135.160 Water ices