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Maine Cheese Guild Quality Statement
The Maine Cheese Guild believes that cheese of the highest quality can only be made with a thorough and regularly refreshed knowledge of food safety.
The Maine Cheese Guild promotes and sponsors regular opportunities to learn about best practices for cheese making. The Guild also believes that the best way for professional* cheese makers to guarantee the quality of their product is by being appropriately licensed by the Maine Department of Agriculture, as only licensed cheese makers are legally allowed to sell cheese to the public, and only licensed cheese makers receive feedback from the dairy regulatory unit through regular testing for contamination and facility inspections. This feedback is critical, together with on-going education, in maintaining the high quality of award-winning Maine cheese.
* professional = selling cheese to the public
Ag Day At the Legislature 2009
Above you can see me telling Governor Baldacci about how Maine Cheese is such a great dairy success story!
Along with about thirty ag focused groups, I spent the morning of March 31 offering samples of Maine cheese (thanks to State of Maine Cheese Co., and Pineland Farms) to state house workers and legislators (in between sessions) and asking them if they’d like to know more about Maine cheese. Most of the did, and most of them very much liked the samples of the cheese.
For the legislators, I handed them one of the color Guild brochures and pointed out that when we printed the brochure two years ago there were 20 licensed cheese makers in Maine (as it states in the first paragraph of the brochure), but that currently there are 37 licensed cheese makers, which shows how many new folks are stepping up and putting more Maine milk to good use.
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Maine’s Licensed Cheese Producers
Following is a list from the Maine Department of Agriculture of the Licensed Maine cheese producers in good standing.
Last updated January 2009.
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Guild Meeting
| April 6, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 2:00 pm |
Monday, April 6 @ 10am – Dept. of Agriculture, Cony Rd. Warehouse, Augusta
According to Don Hoenig, our host, the building is ” on Cony Rd. south of route 17 about half a mile on the left if you’re heading south.” According to Google Maps it’s at 333 Cony Rd.
The agenda for this meeting will include:
- Raise Licensing Fee?
- Licensing Statement (see minutes from last meeting)
- Open Creamery Day Planning
- Membership Ideas (see minutes from last meeting)
- May 5 Joint Meeting With Maine Wine Guild TASTING
