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Article: In a jam over Parma ham
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- February 9, 2001
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IT LOOKS like Parma ham, tastes like Parma ham and is made in
Italy with the rest of the world's Parma ham but the British courts
cannot decide if it is Parma ham.
Yesterday five Law Lords issued a 33-page judgment on the
delicacy but failed to reach a conclusion.
Now the European Court of Justice is to decide whether Asda's
ham, sliced from joints accepted throughout the world as Parma ham,
are genuine.
At issue is whether the supermarket can buy whole Parma hams in
Italy, then slice and package them in this country before labelling
them with the Parma mark.
The case, similar to one brought by wine producers from the
Champagne region of France in 1992, has been brought by a consortium ...