Wisconsin Leads ACS Awards With 93 Ribbons, Including 3rd Place In Best Of Show Category

Wisconsin cheesemakers, along with the state’s yogurt and butter makers, captured the top number of ribbons in the recent annual competition of the American Cheese Society Competition in Raleigh, N.C. , claiming 93 awards In all.

RI Health Dept. Advises Consumers Not To Eat Certain Deli Products

August 9, 2012 FDA

The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) advises consumers that they should not eat certain foods from the Market Pantry and Archer Farms Deli Salad lines. The products are sold at Target stores, and are being voluntarily recalled because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Tomales Bay Foods Issues A Recall Of Two Cheeses

August 9, 2012 FDA

Tomales Bay Foods, Inc., Petaluma, CA, a cheese distribution company, is recalling all partial wheels of two cheeses distributed by Tomales Bay Foods Inc., due to an abundance of caution because of possible contamination by Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.  Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

Holland's Family Cheese Takes Four Awards At 2012 ACS Conference & Competition

August 9, 2012 Holland's Family Cheese

Holland's Family Cheese won an array of awards at the American Cheese Society's annual competition in Raleigh, North Carolina over the weekend including first-place honors for Marieke Foenegreek Gouda in the Open Category For All Cheeses With Flavor Added – All Milk Types. This raw, cow's milk beauty is a crowd favorite and boasts a creamy mouthfeel with sweet, maple finishing notes on your palate. In addition to the prize for Foenegreek Gouda, Holland's Family Cheese received the following awards:

Kerrygold Introduces Reduced Fat Dubliner

August 9, 2012 Irish Dairy Board

Cheese lovers, rejoice!  Dubliner, America's favorite Kerrygold cheese and the flagship of the Kerrygold brand, now comes in a reduced-fat version. Kerrygold Reduced Fat Dubliner delivers all the flavor of the original, full-fat Dubliner, for 30 fewer calories and 33% less fat per 1-ounce serving.