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[markomalley]

From The Ontario (CA) Daily Bulletin:

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Authorities seize "bathtub cheese"

Authorities seized 600 pounds of "bathtub cheese" from a small ranch in southwest Riverside County last week.

The seizure of the illegally produced cheese was one of the largest on record in California, according to the Department of Food and Agriculture.

The cheese was seized last Saturday by a multiagency task force that included CDFA officers, Ontario police and Riverside and San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies. Also seized were wooden cheese presses, molds and other items used in production. Two men at the ranch were cited for illegal cheese production.

Officials refer to illegally produced cheese as "bathtub cheese" because of the often unsanitary conditions in which it is made.

Dirty production techniques encourage the growth of harmful bacteria such as salmonella and listeria, which pose serious health risks, according the the CDFA.

CDFA spokesman Steve Lyle said he didn't know where this cheese was being sold. But illegally produced cheese is most commonly sold on the streets and at open-air markets, he said.

- Rod Leveque, (909) 483-9325

[ChattyKathy]

I've been around some butt cheese that couldn't have been legal. :blink:

[Pirate1974]

I've had some toe cheese before but I wasn't about to eat it.

[herbiejuan]

The USDA has sent folks through our farmers market several times trying to locate the forbidden cheese. They found none but that was because some of our vendors are old hippies and figured out how to outsmart the man along time ago. What got so Cheech n Chongish about the whole deal was the furtive look in someones face and then the question, "Who's got the cheese man?".

Apparantly California likes to enact laws to protect people from a lack of common sense, other states allow the sale of home grown cheese.

But what I want to know is who cut the cheese and why did they do it while I was standing in the room??

Edited February 2, 2006 by herbiejuan