CALIFORNIA: Food Conscious: Dairies unite to set safety standards for raw-milk cheese - (San Francisco Chronicles)
September 26, 2007 – 5:56 pmHoping to head off regulation that might make their products illegal, several prominent American dairies, including Redwood Hill Farm in Sebastopol, have formed the Raw Milk Cheesemakers Association.
The story says that the association aims to ensure the safety of domestic cheeses made from unpasteurized milk by helping members implement safe manufacturing practices.
For consumers with a taste for these cheeses - among them Redwood Hill’s goat feta and Jasper Hill Farm’s Constant Bliss - the new group may help keep their favorites available. And for raw-milk cheesemakers eager to make the safest product possible, the RCMA could provide expertise.
Cary Bryant of Oregon’s Rogue Creamery, which makes the acclaimed Rogue River Blue, along with several other blue cheeses from raw milk, was quoted as saying, “It’s about us making sure we have our act together. If anything (bad) happens, the whole industry goes down.”
Jasper Hill’s Bayley Hazen Blue, Fiscalini Farms Cheddar and […]
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