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September 17, 2000
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WASHINGTON - Anyway you slice it, the Swiss on your ham and cheese isn't going to be the same. It seems the holes in traditional Swiss are so large that the cheese gets torn up in the new high-speed slicing machines used by the food service industry. So cheese makers have asked the Agriculture Department to change its standards to allow for smaller holes - or "eyes" - in Grade A Swiss.

Under existing standards, most of the holes must be between 11/ 16 and 13/16 of an inch in diameter. USDA wants to reduce the minimum size to 3/8 of an inch.

Cheese makers want to "loosen up the regulation and put a little flexibility in," said John Umhoefer, executive director of the

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