AMERICAN CHEESE SOCIETY

The Preventive Controls For Human Food (PCHF) is one component of the legislation, and can be found in 21 CFR 117, "Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk Based Preventive Controls for Human Food" (HARPC). The ruling outlines updated and revised requirements for current good manufacturing practice for human food (CGMPs), for hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls for human food (PCHF), and related requirements. For consistency across the industry, ACS shall be using PCHF in place of HARPC on this website as it is the preferred term.

Also known as: safe cheesemaking, The American Cheese Society