Overall, even if to our knowledge this is the first investigation presenting data that regard pathogen cell transfer from cheese rind to paste, some researches concerning meats and salami (Lin et al., 2006; Vorst, Todd, & Ryser, 2006) confirm that cutting procedures are a critical point related to food safety. In particular, as also emerged in the present work, Lin et al. (2006) found that higher L. monocytogenes cell numbers inoculated on the slicer blade resulted in more L. monocytogenes-positive sliced meat samples. Moreover this topic has also raised interests for surface transfer modelling (Sheen, 2008)