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Article: A grim legal first killed this firm
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- December 10, 2006
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Members of the House of Lords were shocked last Wednesday to hear,
from Lord Willoughby de Broke, the extraordinary story behind the
closure in October of a Lancashire cheese firm, employing 26 people.
John Wright had built up Bowland Dairies in Nelson into an pounds
8-million-a-year business making curd cheese, mostly exported to five
EU countries, including France and Germany, for use in quiches and
flans. On June 12, inspectors of the European Commission's Food and
Veterinary Office (FVO) visited the plant for 90 minutes, looked
through the paperwork and, after misinterpreting one document, issued
a "rapid alert notice'' that its products were unsafe. The milk in
the cheese, they ...