21 CFR Part 133: Cheeses and Related Cheese Products
Part 133 of title 21 runs to 75 sections across 2 subparts, and sits in subchapter B, Food for Human Consumption. Every section is reproduced in full and is current to 2026-09-10.

- Sections
- 75
- Subparts
- 2
- Words of regulation
- 33,131
- Current to
- 2026-09-10
Subpart A: General Provisions
Subpart B: Requirements for Specific Standardized Cheese and Related Products
- 133.102 Asiago fresh and asiago soft cheese6
- 133.103 Asiago medium cheese1
- 133.104 Asiago old cheese1
- 133.106 Blue cheese15
- 133.108 Brick cheese14
- 133.109 Brick cheese for manufacturing1
- 133.111 Caciocavallo siciliano cheese7
- 133.113 Cheddar cheese15
- 133.114 Cheddar cheese for manufacturing1
- 133.116 Low sodium cheddar cheese4
- 133.118 Colby cheese12
- 133.119 Colby cheese for manufacturing1
- 133.121 Low sodium colby cheese6
- 133.123 Cold-pack and club cheese23
- 133.124 Cold-pack cheese food21
- 133.125 Cold-pack cheese food with fruits, vegetables, or meats5
- 133.127 Cook cheese, koch kaese13
- 133.128 Cottage cheese7
- 133.129 Dry curd cottage cheese12
- 133.133 Cream cheese12
- 133.134 Cream cheese with other foods9
- 133.136 Washed curd and soaked curd cheese15
- 133.137 Washed curd cheese for manufacturing1
- 133.138 Edam cheese14
- 133.140 Gammelost cheese4
- 133.141 Gorgonzola cheese15
- 133.142 Gouda cheese1
- 133.144 Granular and stirred curd cheese15
- 133.145 Granular cheese for manufacturing1
- 133.146 Grated cheeses23
- 133.147 Grated American cheese food12
- 133.148 Hard grating cheeses11
- 133.149 Gruyere cheese13
- 133.150 Hard cheeses13
- 133.152 Limburger cheese15
- 133.153 Monterey cheese and monterey jack cheese15
- 133.154 High-moisture jack cheese1
- 133.155 Mozzarella cheese and scamorza cheese14
- 133.156 Low-moisture mozzarella and scamorza cheese15
- 133.157 Part-skim mozzarella and scamorza cheese1
- 133.158 Low-moisture part-skim mozzarella and scamorza cheese1
- 133.160 Muenster and munster cheese15
- 133.161 Muenster and munster cheese for manufacturing1
- 133.162 Neufchatel cheese12
- 133.164 Nuworld cheese12
- 133.165 Parmesan and reggiano cheese6
- 133.167 Pasteurized blended cheese5
- 133.168 Pasteurized blended cheese with fruits, vegetables, or meats5
- 133.169 Pasteurized process cheese28
- 133.170 Pasteurized process cheese with fruits, vegetables, or meats5
- 133.171 Pasteurized process pimento cheese6
- 133.173 Pasteurized process cheese food23
- 133.174 Pasteurized process cheese food with fruits, vegetables, or meats6
- 133.175 Pasteurized cheese spread1
- 133.176 Pasteurized cheese spread with fruits, vegetables, or meats4
- 133.178 Pasteurized neufchatel cheese spread with other foods13
- 133.179 Pasteurized process cheese spread27
- 133.180 Pasteurized process cheese spread with fruits, vegetables, or meats4
- 133.181 Provolone cheese18
- 133.182 Soft ripened cheeses10
- 133.183 Romano cheese9
- 133.184 Roquefort cheese, sheep's milk blue-mold, and blue-mold cheese from sheep's milk10
- 133.185 Samsoe cheese14
- 133.186 Sap sago cheese7
- 133.187 Semisoft cheeses13
- 133.188 Semisoft part-skim cheeses13
- 133.189 Skim milk cheese for manufacturing5
- 133.190 Spiced cheeses18
- 133.191 Part-skim spiced cheeses1
- 133.193 Spiced, flavored standardized cheeses2
- 133.195 Swiss and emmentaler cheese16
- 133.196 Swiss cheese for manufacturing1
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Questions
- What does 21 CFR part 133 cover?
- 21 CFR part 133 is Cheeses and Related Cheese Products. It runs to 75 sections across 2 subparts and sits in subchapter B of chapter I, Food for Human Consumption.
Every section of part 133 is a clause somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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