Mi e' parso che Kyle Phillips abbia scritto:

>> Our DOP system is worth only in European Union. So in
>> the USA or in AUS you can find also copies. It happens
>> for many foods, for example in canada "parma ham" is a
>> trademark of a canadian, who sells canadian ham.

> I agree that it can be done in the absence of a law
> forbidding it. However, the Canadian can't export the ham
> to Europe

Only if it is named Parma Ham: so they make a different label for
the european market and they're OK. Who loses? The canadians who
can not import "parma ham" or "prosciutto di Parma", I suppose,
since it's a trademark of a canadian. Or is there also *real*
"prosciutto di Parma" in Canada?

> -- a huge market, and getting bigger as Eastern
> European countries join the EEU, and he's setting himslef
> up for a fall elsewhere as well. Why would a Japanese or
> an Australian (or anyone else outside the company's
> distribution area for that matter) want to buy Canadian
> imitation Prosciutto di Parma when they can get the real
> stuff?

You're right: only the owner of that canadian trademark likes
this.

> If you're buying an imported product, you might as
> well buy the real thing, and this is especially true of
> products that achieve cult status. Much better to work to
> establish a local name for your product. Then, all of a
> sudden, you get tourists coming to see where it's made,
> and buying local things, and staying there, and... The
> area takes off. Wine is the most obvious example of this,
> but truffles are a huge draw in many Italian areas, and
> there are people who visit cheesemakers too.

All true. I'm sorry for the costumers, and also for the producers
of the "real" thing.

>> Probably this "danish fontina" is all exported out of
>> the EU.

> I would expect the true Fontina people to put up a fight
> to stop the Danes. By European law they could force the
> Danes to change the name of the cheese, I think.

Sure they can not sell it in the european market, I don't know if
they can produce it.
I think not, and am starting to think that that "danish fontina"
does not come from Europe.
Somebody has a package, so to check the origin?

> That's why the stuff made in Germany (and exported) is called
> Parmesan and not Parmigiano. They (the Germans) tried to
> get DOP status for their imitation last year but failed.

Yes, sometimes things work well
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Vilco
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