Comments on: Your views on cheese count too http://www.tomatom.com/2008/09/you-views-on-cheese-count-too/ The insiders' guide to food and drink in Melbourne. Since 2005. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:40:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Is the raw milk review biased? | Tomato http://www.tomatom.com/2008/09/you-views-on-cheese-count-too/comment-page-1/#comment-44845 Is the raw milk review biased? | Tomato Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:55:02 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=799#comment-44845 [...] - or perhaps information - has emerged from Food Standards ANZ on the submissions last year on the review of raw milk processing standards. FANZ has distributed this pdf which I can’t seem to find on their website where it [...] [...] – or perhaps information – has emerged from Food Standards ANZ on the submissions last year on the review of raw milk processing standards. FANZ has distributed this pdf which I can’t seem to find on their website where it [...]

]]> By: Vida http://www.tomatom.com/2008/09/you-views-on-cheese-count-too/comment-page-1/#comment-39484 Vida Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:08:42 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=799#comment-39484 sent off mine, thanks Ed sent off mine, thanks Ed

]]> By: stickyfingers http://www.tomatom.com/2008/09/you-views-on-cheese-count-too/comment-page-1/#comment-39482 stickyfingers Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:06:38 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=799#comment-39482 Nick's form is Will Studd's proposal. We've had it on the <a>, with Will's blessing since he sent it to Slow Food. It has proved to be popular with our readers and forum participants. Over at </a><a href="http://editor.nourishedmagazine.com.au/articles/blog-with-us-for-real-raw-milk-tell-fsanz-what-you-want"/ rel="nofollow">Nourished Magazine</a>, Joanna is urging us all also to send a separate email to FSANZ in support of raw milk - I have listed some of the reasons on my own blog. Susan - you may be interested to read some of the comments on Nourished, Christian from <a href="http://www.fromart.com.au/" rel="nofollow">Fromart </a> says this, "To legally proof(sic) that the cheese is safe, I would have to test 5 samples of each batch produced, which would come to about 750 DOLLARS for a batch of 150 kg of cheese! Wow, how would I be able to sell this cheese? In a country, where distributors take a very big $ amount for every kg of cheese being sold, the manufacturer of raw milk cheese would have to find a VERY CLEVER way of selling directly to the end consumer, otherwise it would be financially not viable to do it, I think." Nick’s form is Will Studd’s proposal. We’ve had it on the , with Will’s blessing since he sent it to Slow Food. It has proved to be popular with our readers and forum participants.

Over at Nourished Magazine, Joanna is urging us all also to send a separate email to FSANZ in support of raw milk – I have listed some of the reasons on my own blog.

Susan – you may be interested to read some of the comments on Nourished, Christian from Fromart
says this,
“To legally proof(sic) that the cheese is safe, I would have to test 5 samples of each batch produced, which would come to about 750 DOLLARS for a batch of 150 kg of cheese! Wow, how would I be able to sell this cheese? In a country, where distributors take a very big $ amount for every kg of cheese being sold, the manufacturer of raw milk cheese would have to find a VERY CLEVER way of selling directly to the end consumer, otherwise it would be financially not viable to do it, I think.”

]]> By: Susan http://www.tomatom.com/2008/09/you-views-on-cheese-count-too/comment-page-1/#comment-39455 Susan Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:33:00 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=799#comment-39455 I've sent in my tuppence worth but what disappoints me is when I see the following quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald: "However, not everyone in the industry wants a change. David Brown, president of Australian Specialist Cheesemakers Association, says when Victorian members were surveyed about raw milk cheese in 2002, "only 6 per cent showed any enthusiasm … which means there was 94 per cent that either didn't care or didn't want it"." How accurately can a survey from 2002 reflect the views of specialist cheese makers across Australia in 2008? I’ve sent in my tuppence worth but what disappoints me is when I see the following quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald:

“However, not everyone in the industry wants a change. David Brown, president of Australian Specialist Cheesemakers Association, says when Victorian members were surveyed about raw milk cheese in 2002, “only 6 per cent showed any enthusiasm … which means there was 94 per cent that either didn’t care or didn’t want it”.”

How accurately can a survey from 2002 reflect the views of specialist cheese makers across Australia in 2008?

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