By: Russell Keener  —  February 16, 2011
 

Fed­eral Agents Seize Unpas­teur­ized Cheese Over Con­t­a­m­i­na­tion Concerns

The Los Ange­les Times (1/29, Huff­s­tut­ter) reported that “US mar­shals and Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion agents arrived at Tulare County cheese maker Bravo Farms and seized” scores of “wedges of raw-milk Gouda cheese” in addi­tion to “piles of Edam and blocks of white ched­dar. All told, inves­ti­ga­tors have locked up more than 80,000 pounds of cheese.” The paper explained that “fed­eral and state offi­cials sam­pled Bravo’s quar­an­tined stock­piles, some of which tested pos­i­tive for E. coli and Lis­te­ria mono­cy­to­genes, a pathogen that can be fatal to chil­dren and the elderly, accord­ing to fed­eral court doc­u­ments and an FDA inspec­tion report.” The Times said “John Shee­han, direc­tor of the FDA’s dairy divi­sion, said the inspec­tions came from con­cerns ‘about raw-milk cheese made under arti­sanal con­di­tions’ and a flurry of nine arti­san cheese recalls last year.”

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