Thursday,
February 28, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
same day Italy Police seized about 1,000 hams because the meat was branded with
fake
Similar
restrictions are in place for items like "
Gro_ansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:
Italian
cheesemakers have been fighting to protect their
Parmesan
Deutsche
Welle -
February
28, 2008
Everyone knows it, and
virtually everyone enjoys it: grated Parmesan cheese sprinkled across a
steaming bowl of pasta. But, it
This week, the European
Court of Justice, located in
"Only cheeses
bearing the protected designation of origin (PDO)
The PDO system gives the
cheese the same protection benefiting other European products, such as French
camembert, which must come from
Only the cheese produced
in the area around
But there
The European Commission
in
"A member state is
not obliged to take on its own initiative the measures required in order to
penalize the infringement on its
The court said that it was up to Italian authorities to prosecute.
"Still a victory"
The European Commission and Italian cheesemakers were pleased with the verdict nonetheless.
"The court has upheld the basis of our PDO system," Commission agriculture spokesman Michael Mann said, as cited by Reuters news service. "Parmesan is not a generic product -- you can only call it that if you follow the specifications of Parmigiano Reggiano."
"We lost the case
because it was specifically about our thinking that
"The glass is
half-full and half-empty," Igino Morini, spokesman of the Parmigiano
cheesemakers
Cheesemakers
in the
The name "Parmigiano Reggiano," as
well as the cheese
The EU
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3152168,00.html
CNN
-
February
28, 2008
Police said
Wednesday the prosciutto isn
The dry-cured
Those selling the
falsely-branded ham risk steep fines and a criminal record. Police believe
consumers have already bought and ate some of the prosciutto.
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