Seize the cheese

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Sep 2nd 2005 @ 2:01PM

I don’t know why I find news about cheese so amusing…

Danish authorities recently intercepted a shipment of supposedly-Greek feta cheese traveling from Greece to Denmark. Greece has recently been trying to restrict the use of the term feta to only Greek products. The discovery of this Bulgarian cheese, being passed off for export as Greek feta, serves as a setback to those seeking to confine the use of the name. The EU recently ruled against the Danish dairy industry, saying that Greece should have the exclusive rights to the name feta.

“I’m very happy that the Greeks were caught in the act, said Dairy Board director Hans Bender, “bogus shipments are common knowledge.”

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