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Division 4.5 Method of production

United Kingdom

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The milk must be produced, and the cheese must be manufactured and matured within the geographical area.

This cheese is predominantly lactic, left to drain naturally and slowly, and made exclusively from cow’s milk that is matured and then renneted; it has a coagulation time of a minimum of 12 hours; the ripening period is of two weeks minimum.