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Get your free copy23 September 2015, 15:44 PM
- British producers of Halloumi cheese will have to cease or change production of their cheese as a result of a Cypriot attempt to protect the cheese under the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) scheme
Three producers of Halloumi in the UK who would be prevented from producing this cheese are Aegean Heritage, Old Plaw Hatch Farm and High Weald Dairy.
Shepherds Purse, a Yorkshire-based cheesemaker, was made to change the name of their Feta-style cheese to Yorkshire Fettle when it lost a high court battle of their right to use the name Feta.
Matthew O’Callaghan, chair of UK Protected Food Names Association said, “Many now regard the name Halloumi as a generic word for a style of making cheese rather than a cheese from a particular area. Although this may affect only a handful of cheesemakers in the UK, nevertheless this is an important part of their business.”
