Importing milk for cheese will not be banned in Switzerland

Swiss cheese makers will be able to continue importing milk from abroad. The Council of States rejected Wednesday, by 23 votes against 18, a UDC motion asking for the prohibition of this so-called "improvement" traffic. However, he is of the opinion that transparency for the players concerned must be improved (photo illustration Agri). For State Councilor Werner Salzmann (UDC / BE), it is incomprehensible that we can import milk to transform it into cheese in Switzerland when the conditions are met to produce enough of it at the indigenous level. This traffic has the effect of lowering the price of milk production in Switzerland and in the long term risks leading to a drop in milk production in Switzerland. He recalls that the financial loss of the cheese producers who process the milk is already 100% compensated by the supplements donated under the system which replaced the "chocolate law". For him, it is necessary to prohibit these imports for cheese and, for other dairy ...