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Article: Bid to Standardize Parmesan Cheese Fails
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- July 7, 2005
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AP Online
07-07-2005
Dateline: ROME
A U.S.-led bid to make an international standard for Parmesan cheese that could be produced anywhere failed Thursday after Italy and the European Union insisted it must come from the area around Parma, U.N. and Italian officials said.
The issue was shelved at a meeting of the Codex Alimentarius, a U.N. commission that sets food safety and quality standards, after it became clear there wasn't enough agreement to proceed, said John Riddle, a spokesman at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
"It will not be discussed again at this 28th session, but it may be brought back at any time at future sessions, at the request of any member country," Riddle said ...