Fight over Gruyère cheese label spreads to US

Emmi, the largest Swiss dairy, is expanding its cheese production in the United States with a big new Gruyère cheese factory. Faced with opposition from Swiss cheesemakers, Emmi is now rethinking the name of its US product. (RTS/swissinfo)

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This content was published on Jun 12, 2003 “The official registration of the Gruyère appellation d’origine will stand out as one of the important dates in the long history of this cheese,” Manfred Boetsch, the director of the office told a news conference. The announcement comes three years after four western cantons which produce Gruyère – Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchatel and Jura – requested…

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