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Article: EU Court backs Parma ham, Grana Padano producers on local slicing, grating
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- AP Worldstream
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- May 20, 2003
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Dateline: BRUSSELS, Belgium
Parma ham producers won a major victory Tuesday when the European
Union's highest court ruled that the prepackaged prosciutto had to
be sliced in the home region to be worthy of the name.
The Court of Justice also agreed with an Italian law that prepackaged
Grana Padano cheese had to be grated in the Po valley region of production
to preserve its "quality and authenticity."
The court's ruling brought closure to a case that started in 1997,
when Parma producers sued Asda, a Wal-Mart owned British supermarket
chain, for selling "Parma"-labeled ham that was prepackaged and pre-
sliced in England.
"This is an important ...