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So was I, but I thought of it and thought I'd mention it. I've never done an oil bath but mold can grow in oil.

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Hi, I hate to re start up this subject but the pinkish coloring is something I learned about in a round of sort a way.  May or may not apply to cow milk as the incident I speak of was a problem with Human Breast milk turning pink AFTER exposed in a partly filled bottle or a empty bottle left in the sink over night for clean up.  (I worked as microbiology lab assistant/tutor putting my way thru college.  There is a bacteria whos primary hint there is an infection by pink milk  AFTER the milk has been stored at a certain temp and in Oxygen .  This bacteria does cause mastitis in humans as well as bovines and it affects milk glads but can also become a systemic disease too.  This bacterial infection may not be diagnosised for the milk may look white...but at somepoint based on the heat and oxygen it multiplies and produces a pink tinge and can get really bright pink in the one case I saw as a nurse...and the deciding fact if that this bacterial does not grow real fast...and once introduced to lots of oxygen outside of the teat....the milk will lool fine and it was put in frig to feed the little preemie with and it would at some point look a but off, pinkish, but not one quite got it cause the Mom was not symptomatic for mastitis.  However after going home her situation got stranger because she would pump clean milk and give it to child in bottle..then store rest in frig and empties went to sink for morning.  She would wake up with PINK milk in bottle and pink fatty film on the bottle left in the sink.  Turns out she got this bacteria in her breast that got out of control (for we all have this natural amounts on our bodies. and she because systemically infected and even her child got infected.  So she went to formula...stopped breast milk and still his empty bottles had pink residue in sterilized bottles.  He had just enough of the bacterial NOW for him to contaminate a sterile bottle just by sucking.  Cows do get this same bacteria and it does cause mastitis and stillbirths.  I can't say that it is the exact Serratia (there are several forms) or whether it is really dangerous to a healthy person...but just something that I learned about the subject when this lady was getting really pretty colored breast milk...but only after it sat in the frig with air space in the bottle that allowed it to multiply.  I had 3 pots of a lite pink semi soft cheese (same batch) and they all got a really like pink tinge to it...and taste was off.  I remembered my past experience in learning about this and decided Id eat it but not give it to anyone else.  I didn't get sick at all...but then again I ended up throwing it out so I could make something better.  Good Luck 

You mentioned you used some Chilli spice. Could that be the Tannic acid from the Chilli breaking down?

So is the pink mould danqerous to health? can it just be scrapped off?

I just removed it and it was fine.

Cacio

If it were pink spots or blotch like mold I would be concerned but a pink tinge or color to the whole cheese can be cause by flurecent lights.