Definition: Cheese

Category: Agriculture

Cheese is a fresh or matured, solid or semi-solid product, obtained by coagulating milk, skimmed milk, partly skimmed milk, cream, whey cream or buttermilk, alone or in combination, by the action of rennet or other suitable coagulating agents, and by partly draining the whey resulting from such coagulation. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31997D0080:EN:HTML
Source:
European Union, Commission Decision No 97/80/EC of 18 December 1996 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Directive No 96/16/EC on statistical surveys of milk and milk products
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