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Article: The King is back: Roquefort cheese cleared for sale in Australia
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- September 23, 2005
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AP Worldstream
09-23-2005
Dateline: SYDNEY, Australia
The King is back.
Eleven years after being banished from dining tables Down Under, Canberra has cleared Roquefort _ known as the King of Cheeses _ for import again.
The unpasteurized ewe's milk cheese laced with bluish-green veins and ripened in caves in southern France is back in favor with Australian bureaucrats who once more consider it safe to eat _ after visiting France to check on production methods.
Christopher Pyne, Australia's Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Aging, announced the decision Friday.
"The approval covers only the sale of Roquefort raw milk cheese made under specific conditions in France. Other blue mold cheeses, ...