Below are links to additional documents that follow-up on the Listeria outbreak traced to raw milk cheese at Vulto Creamery in Walton, NY. The first is an ACS statement after their Executive Director spoke to the FDA about the resources available on this topic to ACS members. The other is from Janet Fletcher’s excellent cheese […]
In addition to the American Cheese Society conference, there is another national conference held for cheese makers — The Cheese Makers’ Resource Conference put together by Agri-Service and Dairy Heritage. It’s a bit smaller than the ACS conference and does not include a competition, but it’s held on the East Coast in most years — […]
As I have been warning Guild members for the past few years, the FDA has now publicly announced that it will abandon the “60 Day Rule” allowing the sale and nationwide distribution of cheeses aged > 60 days. In advance of this decision the FDA conducted pathogen testing aimed at raw milk cheeses produced by […]