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Why stop the sale, if there are problems with allergies can't you just label the cheese "[may] contain mites" under the allergen list? Do the mites taste worse

Why stop the sale, if there are problems with allergies can't you just label the cheese "[may] contain mites" under the allergen list? Do the mites taste worse if they're dead? Seems they could be killed relatively easily by placing then in an oxygen free container for a while?

kergonath 6y ago
Cheese is often a bargaining chip in trade negotiations, or collateral damage when the American government wants so show it’s not happy. One example was the banana trade wars in the 1990s, which saw things like roquefort (as well as other European food) getting banned and un-banned a couple of times. It often has not much to do with actual food safety.
- swimfar 6y ago
  True, but I doubt that banning this one very specific cheese (that is much less known than Roquefort in the US) is due to trade negotiations. Even the German mite cheese is supposedly in kind of a legal grey area in the EU.
  - kergonath 6y ago
    You’re right, in this instance apparently some customs agents did not like the look of one batch. My memory is a bit hazy, and finding details is difficult. The report is fantastic though, you can feel the disgust of the officer who wrote it: — The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it the article appears to consist in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or be otherwise unfit for food. — https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/importrefusals/index.cfm https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/importrefusals/index.... There are actually a bunch of things that are not entirely compliant with EU regulations but get some kind of exemption because they are traditional, and usually not produced in large quantities. Sometimes they can be produced but not sold, like the casu marzu mentioned elsethread.

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Why stop the sale, if there are problems with allergies can't you just label the cheese "[may] contain mites" under the allergen list? Do the mites taste worse

by pbhjpbhj 6y ago

kergonath 6y ago
Cheese is often a bargaining chip in trade negotiations, or collateral damage when the American government wants so show it’s not happy. One example was the banana trade wars in the 1990s, which saw things like roquefort (as well as other European food) getting banned and un-banned a couple of times. It often has not much to do with actual food safety.
- swimfar 6y ago
  True, but I doubt that banning this one very specific cheese (that is much less known than Roquefort in the US) is due to trade negotiations. Even the German mite cheese is supposedly in kind of a legal grey area in the EU.
  - kergonath 6y ago
    You’re right, in this instance apparently some customs agents did not like the look of one batch. My memory is a bit hazy, and finding details is difficult. The report is fantastic though, you can feel the disgust of the officer who wrote it: — The article is subject to refusal of admission pursuant to Section 801(a)(3) in that it the article appears to consist in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance or be otherwise unfit for food. — https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/importrefusals/index.cfm https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/importrefusals/index.... There are actually a bunch of things that are not entirely compliant with EU regulations but get some kind of exemption because they are traditional, and usually not produced in large quantities. Sometimes they can be produced but not sold, like the casu marzu mentioned elsethread.