‘Big win for cheese lovers’: fromageries celebrate melting of Australia’s ‘ultraconservative’ rules
Experts call new deal to import UK raw milk cheeses a win for flavour, though authorities still urge caution with unpasteurised varieties
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/jul/29/australia-uk-raw-milk-cheese-deal-fromageries-celebrate-melting-rules
In “a big win for cheese lovers” Australians will soon be able to enjoy British raw milk cheeses, with new regulations part of a growing move away from enforced pasteurisation.
The deal, signed last week at the Australian high commission in London, will allow the UK to export 12 varieties to Australia. Six varieties of raw milk cheese, including Montgomery’s cheddar and Sparkenhoe red leicester, were served as the ink dried.
It is a big development in what has been a slow trickle of change, reversing laws made in 1998 that stipulated all cheese sold in Australia be pasteurised.


