LESSAY, France, June 7 (UPI) -- Traditional camembert cheese may become history now that two major French cheese producers have stopped using un-pasteurized milk.
Camembert is traditionally made from un-pasteurized, un-sterilized whole milk from Normandy cows, The London Telegraph said Thursday.
Lactalis, the world's biggest cheese maker, and the Isigny-Sainte-Mere cheese co-operative have begun to use micro-filtered milk to meet modern food safety requirements, the newspaper said.
The cheese producers will no longer be able to use the Normandy camembert Appellation d'Origine Controlee quality mark.
Traditionalists fear that if the AOC changes policy to allow pasteurized milk, the art of traditional gooey camembert will disappear.
Next year only 4,000 tons of Normandy AOC camembert will be made according to the original recipe given to Marie Harel of Camembert by a priest from Brie in 1791, the newspaper said.
