---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 133.170"
title: "21"
number: "133.170"
heading: "Pasteurized process cheese with fruits, vegetables, or meats."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/133.170"
---

# §133.170. Pasteurized process cheese with fruits, vegetables, or meats.

- (a) Unless a definition and standard of identity specifically applicable is established by another section of this part, a pasteurized process cheese with fruits, vegetables, or meats, or mixtures of these is a food which 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 [§ 133.169](/cfr/21/133.169.md), except that:
  - (1) Its moisture content may be 1 percent more, and the milk fat content of its solids may be 1 percent less than the limits prescribed by [§ 133.169](/cfr/21/133.169.md) for moisture and fat in the corresponding pasteurized process cheese.
  - (2) **It contains one or any mixture of two or more of the following—** Any properly prepared cooked, canned, or dried fruit; any properly prepared cooked, canned, or dried vegetable; any properly prepared cooked or canned meat.
  - (3) When the added fruits, vegetables, or meats contain fat, the method prescribed for the determination of fat by [§ 133.5(b)](/cfr/21/133.5.md?p=b) is not applicable.
- (b) The name of a pasteurized process cheese with fruits, vegetables, or meats is the name prescribed by [§ 133.169](/cfr/21/133.169.md) for the applicable pasteurized process cheese, followed by the term “with ______”, the blank being filled in with the common or usual name or names of the fruits, vegetables, or meats used, in order of predominance by weight.

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 14366, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 49 FR 10095, Mar. 19, 1984; 58 FR 2894, Jan. 6, 1993]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321, 341, 343, 348, 371, 379e.

### Amendments

[42 FR 14366, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 49 FR 10095, Mar. 19, 1984; 58 FR 2894, Jan. 6, 1993]