Danish Dairy Board - Danish Dairy Brief 8/05, Jun 12 2008
It is, however, not the first time bogus Greek Feta cheese is found on the market. The Danish Dairy Board has on various occasions analysed Greek Feta bought in Greece and in other EU markets. As have our German colleagues and the results have been the same: a third of Greek Feta contains up to 100% cow’s milk – or maybe the remaining samples were really produced in Bulgaria!
In the UK they have even found Greek Feta made from casein of cow’s milk. To a serious dairy man this is very naughty.
At first complaints were sent to the EU Commission which had been so eager to grant Greek Feta – allegedly made from sheep’s and goat’s milk – status as a Protected Designation of Origin. But as we soon learned that the evidence was always rejected, we saved our efforts. Even when a fully fledged scandal exposing the well-known Greek cheese maker, Kolios, using vast quantities of – even contaminated – cow’s milk in the production of Feta cheese, broke in Greece two years ago the Commission did not raise an eyebrow.

Danish Dairy Board - Danish Dairy Brief 2/05, Jun 12 2008
The white cheese in brand called feta is probably one of the oldest cheeses in the world. The manufacturing of cheese of this kind was widespread all over the Middle East and eastern part of the Mediterranean region since ancient times. The cheese in fact emerges by itself by the mere salting of milk, which is stored in a container made from the hide or stomach of sheep, goat or cow, which was normal in those days.
In 1987 Greece introduced a new law reservingthe name ‘feta’ for a cheese produced by sheep’s and goat’s milk. This was a novelty as feta cheese has always been produced from the milk locally available or a mixture of all types of milk whether sheep’s, goat’s or cow’s milk. Consequently Denmark approached the Commission complaining that Greece had introduced a technical barrier to the internal trade in the EU.
In 1990 two consignments of Danish feta were confiscated in Greece due to the marking ‘Danish feta – made from pasteurized cow’s milk’. This led to the opening of legal proceedings at the High Court in Athens where the Danish part demanded an annulment of the Greek legislation protecting feta as this was a violation of the rules of the single market.

Danish Dairy Board - Agriculture, Jun 12 2008
Cow wearing eartag
Curious cow
Farmer with cow in loose-housing system

MEJERIFORENINGEN - Mejerigtigt tidsfordriv, Jun 12 2008
I forlængelse heraf kan ungerne passende prøve kræfter med en af klassikerne inden for ko-kast-genren: ‘Fling the cow’, som det hedder på nudansk. www.flingthecow.com tilbyder to versioner af det udødelige spil.

Danish Dairy Board - Sitemap, Jun 12 2008
2.2: Yield per cow

Danish Dairy Board - Danish Dairy Brief 6/05, Jun 12 2008
the use of cow’s milk will produce less holes in the cheese than if sheep’s milk is utilised