Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 17, 2025

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Dec 11, 2025
§ 133.116 - Low sodium cheddar cheese.

Low sodium cheddar cheese is the food prepared from the same ingredients and in the same manner prescribed in § 133.113 for cheddar cheese and complies with all the provisions of § 133.113, including the requirements for label statement of ingredients, except that:

(a) It contains not more than 96 milligrams of sodium per pound of finished food.

(b) The name of the food is “low sodium cheddar cheese”. The letters in the words “low sodium” shall be of the same size and style of type as the letters in the words “cheddar cheese”, wherever such words appear on the label.

(c) If a salt substitute is used, the label shall bear the statement “______ added as a salt substitute”, the blank being filled in with the common name or names of the ingredient or ingredients used as a salt substitute.

[48 FR 2743, Jan. 21, 1983, as amended at 85 FR 72907, Nov. 16, 2020]
cite as: 21 CFR 133.116