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Dominos fires cheese-snorting staff

The Dominos Pizza chain says two people are facing criminal charges afer kitchen workers filmed unsavoury acts involving cheese and posted it on the Internet.
Kristy Lynn Hammonds and Michael Anthony Setzer have been charged with distributing prohibited foods after footage of what appears to be Setzer shoving cheese up his nostril appeared on YouTube.

Backstreet cheese deals blamed for illnesses

Health officials in the United States are hunting for an illegal cheese manufacturer whose backstreet dairy sales are believed to be the source of a string of illnesses.
Unscrupulous cheese vendors have been offloading their tainted produce in parking lots outside stores and churches in the Winnebago area of Illinois, west of Chicago, local authorities say. [...]

130-year-old woman: Cheese is my secret

It’s not often cheese is credited with health-giving properties, but if Sakhan Dosova is to believed, it’s a key ingredient in helping her reach the ripe old age of 130.
Dosova, from Karaganda in northern Kazakhstan, has a recorded birthdate of March 27, 1879, which if true, puts her 16 years older than the next eldest [...]

Is China fighting a war on cheese?

China is deploying trained sniffer beagles at major airports to track down chunks of cheese packed in luggage, according to anecdotal reports from passengers.
The Website of respected U.S. magazine Atlantic has detailed several accounts of what it says could be an “anti-cheese crackdown” at Chinese ports of entry.