Hands ... off ... the ... cheese.

[theR]

@Qadgop_the_Mercotan

Looks like wood-aged cheese is not going to be restricted:
Our Short National Cheese Nightmare Is Over: FDA Backtracks on Wood-Aged Cheese

I don’t think the Reason article is even correct since it stated that the FDA cited a company for using cheese boards. The citation was because they found listeria monocytogenes on a cheese board, not because of the board itself.

The flap dates to a 2012 FDA inspection of a small cheesemaker in upstate New York, during which was found the presence of listeria monocytogenes, a potentially harmful bacteria, on one of the boards used to age the company’s Gouda-style cheese. After inspectors found evidence of listeria again in 2013, the FDA ordered the company to halt its sales until it developed a listeria-control program.

New York’s Department of Agriculture and Markets, which like other states has long allowed the practice, sought clarity from the FDA on the use of wooden boards to age cheese — a technique used for hundreds of years in the United States and Europe.
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The FDA quickly tried to clarify its position Tuesday, saying that Metz’s reply was merely a response to questions raised by New York regulators, not a statement of policy. In fact, the agency said it has no new policy concerning the use of wooden shelves in cheesemaking and that it never has taken an enforcement action “based solely on the use of wooden shelves.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/is-the-fda-waging-a-war-on-artisanal-cheese/2014/06/11/ac762426-f0c1-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html

[Bryan_Ekers]

@Deeg

I have to go to Montreal to get good cheese.

@lieu

I have to go there to get Steak Seasoning!

I have to go there to work and sleep and eat.

Fortunately I’m already here, so the commute is manageable.

[Banquet_Bear]

…the first cite says that the 60 day rule was introduced in 1985, and now Americans prefer the bland, somewhat underripe Brie to the “real thing.” The second shows that most people don’t care, and the third, as has been revealed, is completely wrong.

So what is the issue again?

[Ranger_Jeff]

Ok, so now the US Gumment is NOT going to cut the cheese?

[Jackmannii]

[QUOTE=ITR champion]
And we all know that the French are ridiculously healthy
[/QUOTE]
Hah, they live longer in Singapore.

And those Frenchies don’t do so well when it comes to mental health.

[ITR_champion]

@John_DiFool

And, once again, it is all Obama’s fault, right?

I doubt it. If anyone were to ask Obama why his FDA is going after our cheese, he’d probably say yet again that he had no clue what his underlings were doing until he read it in the paper, which in this particular case would probably be true. It’s more an example of how bureaucracy is running our lives than of how Obama or any other single person is.

[Little_Pig]

No need to worry about the over use of antibiotics in animals, lets go after microorganisms in cheese. We are all doomed, doomed I say. While awaiting death, please pass the Camembert and Sauvignon Blanc. Wait, is that a bacon wrapped suckling pig medallion on your plate?