Editing Processed cheese (section)

==== Use of unregulated terms ====
The FDA does not maintain a standard of identity for either "pasteurized prepared cheese product", a designation which particularly appears on many Kraft products, or "pasteurized process cheese product", a designation which appears particularly on many American store- and generic-branded singles. Since by using undefined terms the manufacturers technically avoid being accused of false labeling, products carrying such labels are free to use [[milk protein concentrate]] (MPC) in their formulations, an ingredient the FDA does not permit in processed cheese. The desire to use inexpensive imported milk protein concentrate to replace some of the cheese in their products is noted as motivation for the manufacturers to introduce these and similar terms, and for the relabeling of some products.<ref>[http://www.aae.wisc.edu/pubs/mpbpapers/pdf/mpb80.pdf "U.S. Imports of Concentrated Milk Proteins: What We Know and Don't Know?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205008/https://aae.wisc.edu/pubs/mpbpapers/pdf/mpb80.pdf/ |date=24 June 2021 }}, Jesse, ''Marketing and Policy Briefing Paper No. 80,'' Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Extension, University of Wisconsin-Extension, February 2003. Accessed 8 February 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=23741 "What is 'Real Kraft Cheese'?"], ''Chicago Business'', 5 February 2007. Accessed 9 February 2010.</ref> After an [[FDA Warning Letter]] protesting Kraft's use of MPC in late 2002,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2002/ucm145363.htm |title=Warning Letters: Kraft Foods North America, Inc. 18-Dec-02|work=[[US Food and Drug Administration]]|date=18 December 2002|archive-date=10 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110110185442/https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2002/ucm145363.htm |access-date=7 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> some varieties of [[Kraft Singles]] formerly labeled "pasteurized process cheese food" became "pasteurized prepared cheese product", [[Velveeta]] was relabeled from "pasteurized process cheese spread" to "pasteurized prepared cheese product", and [[Easy Cheese]] from "pasteurized process cheese spread" to "pasteurized cheese snack".

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File:USDA Commodities Cheeses.jpg|[[Government cheese]] from 2023: a large chunk of American pasteurized process ''cheese'' and a small chunk of processed Cheddar ''cheese''
File:Swift's Brookfield American Pasteurized Cheese Food 1948.jpg|A 1948 U.S. advertisement for an American pasteurized cheese ''food''
File:Easy Cheese 5-21-09 IMG 4155 (3557182152).jpg|[[Easy Cheese]], a "pasteurized process cheese snack" (unregulated term), on a pretzel
File:Velveeta Cheese.JPG|[[Velveeta]], a "pasteurized prepared cheese product" (unregulated term)
File:2021-08-12 17 18 17 A jar of Kraft Cheez Whiz in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia.jpg|[[Cheez Whiz]], a "cheese dip" (unregulated term) commonly used for [[cheesesteak]]s
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