Deli

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today commended the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) for the new CIFOR Foodborne Illness Response Guidelines for Owners, Operators and Managers of Food Establishments. …

When Kenny Mattingly was 19, his family moved from Indianapolis to Barren County, Kentucky, to start a 200-acre dairy farm. Later, Mattingly became an organizer for the Community Farm Alliance, and was sent to Europe in the late 1980s to report on farming practices. After seeing how Europeans made small family farms work, he decided to convert a portion of his own cow’s milk to cheese, and Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese was born. …

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Agropur are warning the public not to consume the Igor brand Gorgonzola Cheese described below because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. …

The American Cheese Society’s annual conference comes to Madison this week to bestow its honors on more cheesemakers, as well as provide educational sessions and connect producers and buyers. …

In the Washington suburb of Arlington, cheese shop owner Jill Erber is leading a desperate crusade to convince US authorities not to ban one of her products over the tiny mites that live on its rind. …