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Article: Swiss cheese makers seek to protect Emmental name
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- November 14, 2004
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The Associated Press
GENEVA, Switzerland - Switzerland's most famous cheese, the holey
Emmental, is raising a stink.
Swiss makers of the cheese, the country's biggest agricultural
export, are looking to protect its name from competitors around the
world that have long copied the pliable nutty-flavored slabs riddled
with large round holes created by gases released during fermentation.
Although the effort to limit use of the name Emmental is unlikely
to make a difference in North America - where it has long been loved
simply as "Swiss cheese" - the campaign is causing a meltdown among
producers across Europe.
"It will protect the tradition and quality of the Emmental
cheese," said Juerg ...