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OK, I'm confused. I was in Haute Savoy on a road trip last weekend and picked up some cheeses from a little shop along the road, and 2 bottles of wine. Nobody is getting sick from cheeses in France. Is the real problem here just the usual horrendous food safety practices of the US? Should we be chlorinating American Cheese to be sure? Or is it specifically a pregnancy thing? What am I missing?
Yes they are. Is everyone ? No but like raw milk some are and it's avoidable by not consuming it.
Oh, but they are. Some have even died.
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/07/large-french-yersinia-outbreak-traced-to-raw-milk-cheese/
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/two-dead-and-dozens-ill-in-listeria-outbreak-linked-to-cheese/ar-AA1KOKp4
Some European cheeses are illegal to import to the US due to FDA regulations.
For now...just wait until Bobby Brainworm gets on the case...sure, he's not the head of the FDA, but when have norms or rules mattered to this maladministration?
I can't speak to the cheese you bought but cheese is usually aged for a while so that helps keep bacteria levels lower or gives it time to fulminate so they know to toss it.
Do you think the French are making their cheese with unprocessed milk containing blood and shit?
Maybe?
https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/listeria-fears-prompt-global-recall-of-french-cheeses/740099
Just because the milk was pausterized doesn't mean the final product can't be contaminated.
Have you seen American farms? There are reasons that the EU does not allow American beef and chicken over the pond. Let the Americans eat them, with all the other stuff already banned elsewhere, this does not make much of a difference.