Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Ten percent of the world’s Emmentaler Switzerland cheese is fake, and starting this month, the Swiss government is going after the pirated versions, with a new tool in hand. DNA tests developed by the federal research stations office, Agroscope, can identify cheeses that are not made with a live bacteria that […]
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Switzerland gets its own AOCs!
When it comes to wine and food, a name is not just a name Switzerland has had AOCs for a while now, but on 14 January 2010, the Swiss federal agriculture office, OFAG, published an official bulletin containing a list of approximately 800 appellations of origin and geographical indications, roughly the equivalent of the French […]