In recent years, the fight over the right to call a certain tangy, crumbly cheese 'feta' has come to symbolise a battle over product branding. Some countries have argued that feta is a generic food name: in other words, the name represents a type of cheese which could be produced anywhere. But Greece has won from the European Union the right to protect the use of the name 'feta' to describe this type of cheese only when it has been made in specific Greek regions.

This is known as 'Protected Designation of Origin' (PDO) and it has sparked a legal wrangle which has taken up court time for the past 20 years. At the heart of the battle is this question: do countries like Germany, Denmark and France (and the UK) have the right to use the name 'feta' to describe a feta-like cheese they produce?

Greece argued that they do not, saying that only the Greek-made product should be able to be called feta. The Greeks stress that this crumbly tangy cheese has been made in Greece from sheep's milk for the past 6,000 years. In their view, the cheese's name is synonymous with the area in which it is made. The EU has agreed and ended the right of other countries to use the name on their feta-like cheeses.

Our cheese is made in the traditional way, using 100% sheep milk, but is made in Sussex, therefore it cannot be called Feta cheese.

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