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FRIDAY, 4 APRIL 2008
Poland: Scypek almost like Oscypek

OSCYPEKThe Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reports about strange and shady business carries on at many markets in towns located at The Beskids. Class 46 readers already know that OSCYPEK is a protected designation of origin. But in some markets of Szczyrk or Wisla you may find cheeses that are advertised as SCYPEK.
Accroding to Gazeta Wyborcza some merchants says that

"one needs to find a way, if such restrictions have been introduced. I do not want to have any problems regarding controls. People already know what is going on. The tourists like this cheese and they want to buy it - so why not sell it?"
Artur Siedlarek representing the Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection in Warsaw said that such operation infringes European Union's norms.
"(...) it is like a game. The seller wants to sell but he also does not want to run the risk of being controlled"
Piotr Kohut, gazda (the name for a farmer in the Tatra Mountains region) from Koniaków, owns the first bacówka (JPG file of this type of a building) that met European Union's requrements regarding the production of OSCYPEK. He says that he understand such behaviour
"(...) everyone wants to make money but you won't get ahead in life if you lie. If they want to act like this then let they sell it honestly - like cheese made from cow's milk."

Posted by: Tomasz Rychlicki @ 15.22
Tags: Oscypek PDO, PDO/DOP infringement, Poland,
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