EU move to ban cheese names big threat to Australian dairy industry

By Terry Richardson, Adf President
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:05am, first published September 5 2019 - 11:30am
BIG HIT: Riverina Dairy chief executive Franck Beaurain is one of the Australian dairy manufacturers who may be forced to rebadge his firm's feta cheese under an EU deal.
BIG HIT: Riverina Dairy chief executive Franck Beaurain is one of the Australian dairy manufacturers who may be forced to rebadge his firm's feta cheese under an EU deal.

The European Union's mission to force Australia into banning common cheese names like feta and haloumi represents one of the biggest threats to our livelihoods that I can recall in my decades in the dairy industry.

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