Stichelton made with pasteurised milk for many years, until 1989 the Colston Bassett dairy did make one Stilton with unpasteurised milk. However, following an outbreak of food poisoning incorrectly linked to the dairy and subsequently revealed to be unfounded, they decided to end production of the unpasteurised cheese. In 1996, this decision was permanently enshrined when Stilton was awarded Protected Designation of Origin status by the EU, with one of the criteria being the use of pasteurised cows milk. Stichelton is produced by a partnership including Randolph Hodgson who owns the specialist cheese retailer Neal's Yard Dairy, and Joe Schneider who
Legendary saga in which they were composed" i.e. Iceland in the later Middle Ages. In the words of Margaret Clunies Ross, Some of the sagas are based on distant historic characters, and this is evident in cases where there are corroborating sources, such as "Ragnars saga loðbrókar", "Yngvars saga víðförla" and "Völsunga saga". In the case of "Hervarar saga", it conveys names of historical places in Ukraine during the period c. 150-450, and the last part of the saga is used as a historic source for Swedish history. Indeed, they often contain very old Germanic matter, such as the "Hervarar saga" and