Raw milk cheese is legal to sell in the ACT. The territory has no raw goat milk provision; raw goat milk is legal in neighbouring New South Wales.
Raw milk cheese is the raw dairy sold legally in the Australian Capital Territory. The Australian Capital Territory has not made the express provision for goat milk that Standard 4.2.4 allows, so milk of every species is pasteurised before it is sold for drinking.
Raw milk cheese is legal across Australia. Since February 2015, Division 5 of Standard 4.2.4 has allowed Australian dairies to make cheese from raw milk, with requirements from farm to vat: healthy, individually identified animals, milk cooled to 6°C within two hours of milking and made into cheese within 24 hours, raw cheese milk kept apart from other milk, and a finished cheese that does not support the growth of pathogens. Imported raw milk cheeses are sold too; see Australia starts importing raw cheese from the UK.
Raw goat milk is legal in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. Sources are listed at raw milk in Australia.
Official government documents and legal resources for Australian Capital Territory
The national dairy standard. Clause 15 requires milk to be pasteurised unless a state or territory law expressly provides otherwise, and Division 5 sets the rules for making raw milk cheese.
View Official Resource →NSW Food Authority page on raw milk: all milk sold in New South Wales except goats' milk must be pasteurised.
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