Quality Cheese Act of 2005

The Quality Cheese Act of 2005 was a legislative proposal designed to prevent the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from changing the legal definition of "milk" used in the production of natural cheeses. Specifically, the bill would have prohibited the use of federal funds to allow ingredients like dry ultra-filtered milk or casein—concentrated milk proteins often imported from other countries—to be labeled as "milk" in the manufacturing of standardized natural cheeses. For consumers, this bill aimed to ensure that cheese labeled as "natural" continued to be made using traditional liquid milk rather than certain processed milk derivatives.