[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR133.111]
[Page 319-320]
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. 133.111 Caciocavallo siciliano cheese.
(a) Caciocavallo siciliano cheese is the food prepared from cow's
milk or sheep's milk or goat's milk or mixtures of two or all of these
and other ingredients specified in this section, by the procedure set
forth in paragraph (b) of this section, or by another procedure which
produces a finished cheese having the same physical and chemical
properties as the cheese produced when the procedure set forth in
paragraph (b) of this section is used. It has a stringy texture, and is
made in oblong shapes. It contains not more than 40 percent of moisture,
and its solids contain not less than 42 percent milkfat as determined by
the methods prescribed in Sec. 133.5 (a), (b), and (d). It is cured for
not less than 90 days at a temperature of not less than 35 [deg]F.
(b) Milk, which may be pasteurized or clarified or both, and which
may be warmed, is subjected to the action of harmless lactic-acid-
producing bacteria, present in such milk or added thereto. Harmless
artificial blue or green coloring in a quantity which neutralizes any
natural yellow coloring in the curd may be added. Sufficient rennet,
rennet paste, extract of rennet paste, or other safe and suitable milk-
clotting enzyme that produces equivalent curd formation, singly or in
any combination (with or without purified calcium chloride in a quantity
not more than 0.02 percent, calculated as anhydrous calcium chloride, of
the weight of the milk) is added to set the milk to a semisolid mass.
The mass is cut, stirred, and heated so as to promote and regulate the
separation of whey from curd. The whey is drained off, and the curd is
removed to another vat containing hot whey, in which it is soaked for
several hours. This whey is withdrawn, the curd is allowed to mat, and
is cut into blocks. These are washed in hot whey until the desired
elasticity is obtained. The curd is removed from the vat, drained,
pressed into oblong forms, dried, and salted in brine, and cured. It may
be paraffined. A harmless preparation of enzymes of animal or plant
origin capable of aiding in the curing or development of flavor of
caciocavallo siciliano cheese may be added during the procedure, in such
quantity that the weight of the solids of such preparation is not more
than 0.1 percent of the weight of the milk used.
(c)(1) For the purposes of this section, the word ``milk'' means
cow's milk or goat's milk or sheep's milk or mixtures of two or all of
these. Such milk may be adjusted by separating part of the fat therefrom
or (in the case of cow's milk) by adding one or more of the following:
Cream, skim milk, concentrated skim milk, nonfat dry milk; (in the case
of goat's milk) the corresponding products from goat's milk; (in the
case of sheep's milk) the corresponding products from sheep's milk;
water in a quantity sufficient to reconstitute any such concentrated or
dried products used.
(2) Such milk may be bleached by the use of benzoyl peroxide or a
mixture of benzoyl peroxide with potassium alum, calcium sulfate, and
magnesium carbonate; but the weight of the benzoyl peroxide is not more
than 0.002 percent of the weight of the milk bleached, and the weight of
the potassium alum, calcium sulfate, and magnesium carbonate, singly or
combined, is not more than six times the weight of the benzoyl peroxide
used. If milk is bleached in this manner, sufficient vitamin A is added
to the curd to compensate for the vitamin A or its precursors destroyed
in the bleaching process, and artificial coloring is not used.
(d) Safe and suitable antimycotic agent(s), the cumulative levels of
which shall not exceed current good manufacturing practice, may be added
to the cheese during the kneading and
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stretching process and/or applied to the surface of the cheese.
(e) When caciocavallo siciliano cheese is made solely from cow's
milk, the name of such cheese is ``Caciocavallo siciliano cheese''. When
made from sheep's milk or goat's milk or mixtures of these, or one or
both of these with cow's milk, the name is followed by the words ``made
from ------'', the blank being filled in with the name or names of the
milks used, in order of predominance by weight.
(f) Label declaration: Each of the ingredients used in the food
shall be declared on the label as required by the applicable sections of
parts 101 and 130 of this chapter, except that enzymes of animal, plant,
or microbial origin may be declared as ``enzymes''.
[42 FR 14366, Mar. 15, 1977, as amended at 42 FR 39102, Aug. 2, 1977; 48
FR 49013, Oct. 24, 1983; 49 FR 10093, Mar. 19, 1984; 58 FR 2892, Jan. 6,
1993]
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