Specialist Cheesemakers Association

Technical Guidance

Technical Guidance:

    • Acidity Monitoring during Cheese Production, Paul Thomas

    • Antibiotic Testing of Milk for Cheesemaking, SCA Technical Committee

    • Food Safety Workbook for Farmhouse Cheesemakers, FSAI

    • Guidance for Food Business Operators: Getting the Best from Third-Party Laboratories Chilled Food Association

    • Laboratory Testing: A Guide to Environmental Swabbing, Personal Hygiene Monitoring, Sampling Plans and Interpretation of Results, Sally Young

    • Laboratory Testing: The Collection, Storage and Transport of Samples, Marissa Schwoch

    • Manual of methods for microbiological testing of cheese, Melody Greenwood & Paul Neaves

    • Pest prevention and action in the event of pest activity in specialist cheesemaking SCA

    • Review of milk production hygiene for raw milk cheese making, SCA

    • Shelf life of ready to eat food in relation to Listeria monocytogenes, Chilled Food Association

    • Summary of the UK Health Protection Agency’s guidelines for assessing the microbiological safety of ready-to-eat foods placed on the market, SCA

    • Supplier assurance and the sourcing of milk for cheese production, SCA

    • Supplier assurance and the sourcing of non-milk ingredients, packaging and services for cheese production, SCA

    • Principles of an Environmental Monitoring Program for the Management of Listeria monocytogenes, CFA /Industry Listeria Working Group

    • Using Neogen® Petrifilm® Technology for On-Site Testing of Indicator Organisms, SCA

 Q&As:

  • Allergens and Label Declarations

  • Heat Treatments and Verification

  • Hygiene Indicator Microorganisms: Coliforms, Enterobacteriaceae, and E. coli

  • Listeria: How to manage the risks, and what to do if you find it.

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