Pasturised Feta Cheese - Definitely ok?

[SammyW33]

I love Greek salad with feta cheese and recently found some pasturised feta in waitrose. Am I right in thinking this is definitely ok to eat in pregnancy?

Thanks

Feta is fine. Have a look at the NHS page on cheese in pregnancy.

www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/are-hard-cheeses-safe-to-eat-during-pregnancy.aspx?CategoryID=54&SubCategoryID=216

yes. and vast majority of feta is pasteurised.

stop worrying about cheese, the risks are so minute even with unpasteurised varieties.

Loving the fact that hard blue like Stilton is back in the menu! :)

i cook a quiche with feta and had pregnant friends over for lunch and did this. i checked nhs website and with them and sure it was fine!

Yeah. A microbiologist used to post on Pregnancy, when I was expecting my first, and she'd run some of the actual tests on it. She said feta is so saline no bacteria could survive it. US advice isn't based on any actual tests.

Oh, and all cheeses are fine cooked, anyway! Baked camambert is delicious, and if it's piping hot all through then no listeria risk, as heat kills the bug. So you can still enjoy all cheeses, as long as they're cooked! But feta is fine cold.

Thanks all. I will enjoy tucking into my feta! :-)

Have just eaten the runniest Brie, with a spoon :)

God, I can't wait! Only another couple of weeks for me now. How old is your baby?

A family acquaintance's son has cerebral palsy due to a prem birth after listeriosis. It makes it a bit easier to stick to the dietary advice, really, which I do find tough as it seems to rule out so much of the stuff I really love - rare meat, unpasteurised and mouldy cheeses, pates etc. It's so rare, but it happens, and I suppose we're lucky to be in a generation with access to the advice so the risks can be reduced. Her DS is in his 20s and things were less drummed home then, I would imagine. Bit like cot death - growing up, I knew a few women whose babies had died, but as an adult I've not met anyone, the rates have been so sharply reduced. Bloody grateful.