NY eases rules on cheese slicing

Finally some common sense. We’d already heard that the regulations on cheese slicing at farmer’s markets wouldn’t be enforced, and now they’ve been junked altogether: 

ALBANY — The state is moving forward with permanent regulations that would exempt cheese makers from having to get a food-processing license to slice cheese at farmers’ markets.

Last summer, the state Department of Agriculture and Markets was derided by cheese makers for deciding to enforce a 40-year-old regulation that required them to pay $400 every two years for a license to cut cheese for sale at farmers’ markets. If they didn’t have a license, they faced fines of up to $600.

But the state quickly changed course and revoked the regulation temporarily. Now the department said it would change its rules to keep cheese makers exempt permanently.