Roquefort may be on the menu soon
Mar 23rd 2005, 7:51 am
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Roquefort may be on the menu soon
MMMM Roquefort and a glass of red may soon be available in Oz.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/...254030165.html
Rogue cheese back in favour
March 23, 2005
One of the world's great delicacies could be back on dinner tables by Christmas, with Food Standards Australia New Zealand set to approve the importation of Roquefort cheese this year.
A decade after it was banned, the authority called for public comment yesterday on the sale of the French-made cheese, a soft, unpasteurised blue-veined variety produced from ewe's milk.
If the change to the food code is approved, roquefort could be on sale before October.
Roquefort is banned because of a food standard requiring all cheeses to be made from pasteurised milk, heated for 15 seconds to eliminate potential microbiological hazards.
Cheese made from unheated milk can carry e.coli, salmonella, lysteria or campylobacter.
The only other exemptions that have been made to the code were for the Swiss cheeses gruyere, sbrinz and emmental in 1998. The French Government applied to have the ban on Roquefort lifted in April 2003.
Claude Levi, cheese room manager at the Richmond Hill Cafe and Larder in Melbourne, said Roquefort was regarded by some as the king of cheeses.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/...254030165.html
Rogue cheese back in favour
March 23, 2005
One of the world's great delicacies could be back on dinner tables by Christmas, with Food Standards Australia New Zealand set to approve the importation of Roquefort cheese this year.
A decade after it was banned, the authority called for public comment yesterday on the sale of the French-made cheese, a soft, unpasteurised blue-veined variety produced from ewe's milk.
If the change to the food code is approved, roquefort could be on sale before October.
Roquefort is banned because of a food standard requiring all cheeses to be made from pasteurised milk, heated for 15 seconds to eliminate potential microbiological hazards.
Cheese made from unheated milk can carry e.coli, salmonella, lysteria or campylobacter.
The only other exemptions that have been made to the code were for the Swiss cheeses gruyere, sbrinz and emmental in 1998. The French Government applied to have the ban on Roquefort lifted in April 2003.
Claude Levi, cheese room manager at the Richmond Hill Cafe and Larder in Melbourne, said Roquefort was regarded by some as the king of cheeses.
Mar 23rd 2005, 8:45 am
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Re: Roquefort may be on the menu soon
Originally Posted by bondipom
MMMM Roquefort and a glass of red may soon be available in Oz.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/...254030165.html
Rogue cheese back in favour
March 23, 2005
One of the world's great delicacies could be back on dinner tables by Christmas, with Food Standards Australia New Zealand set to approve the importation of Roquefort cheese this year.
A decade after it was banned, the authority called for public comment yesterday on the sale of the French-made cheese, a soft, unpasteurised blue-veined variety produced from ewe's milk.
If the change to the food code is approved, roquefort could be on sale before October.
Roquefort is banned because of a food standard requiring all cheeses to be made from pasteurised milk, heated for 15 seconds to eliminate potential microbiological hazards.
Cheese made from unheated milk can carry e.coli, salmonella, lysteria or campylobacter.
The only other exemptions that have been made to the code were for the Swiss cheeses gruyere, sbrinz and emmental in 1998. The French Government applied to have the ban on Roquefort lifted in April 2003.
Claude Levi, cheese room manager at the Richmond Hill Cafe and Larder in Melbourne, said Roquefort was regarded by some as the king of cheeses.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/...254030165.html
Rogue cheese back in favour
March 23, 2005
One of the world's great delicacies could be back on dinner tables by Christmas, with Food Standards Australia New Zealand set to approve the importation of Roquefort cheese this year.
A decade after it was banned, the authority called for public comment yesterday on the sale of the French-made cheese, a soft, unpasteurised blue-veined variety produced from ewe's milk.
If the change to the food code is approved, roquefort could be on sale before October.
Roquefort is banned because of a food standard requiring all cheeses to be made from pasteurised milk, heated for 15 seconds to eliminate potential microbiological hazards.
Cheese made from unheated milk can carry e.coli, salmonella, lysteria or campylobacter.
The only other exemptions that have been made to the code were for the Swiss cheeses gruyere, sbrinz and emmental in 1998. The French Government applied to have the ban on Roquefort lifted in April 2003.
Claude Levi, cheese room manager at the Richmond Hill Cafe and Larder in Melbourne, said Roquefort was regarded by some as the king of cheeses.
Mar 23rd 2005, 8:50 am
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Re: Roquefort may be on the menu soon
Don't know who you're talking about sweetie, 
get back to the packing
get back to the packing
