date:Jun 11, 2014
lew that the FDA was poised to ban the practice.
A sense of disbelief and distress is quickly rippling through the U.S. artisan cheese community, wrote Cheese Underground blogger Jeanne Carpenter.
The FDA said it had no new policy and had never taken any action against a cheesemaker based solely on the use of wooden shelves. Historically, the agency has cited cheesemakers when shelves were poorly cleaned.
In the interest of public health, the FDA's current regulations state that utensils and