The `barmy Parma drama' is over - and Asda loses its fight to cut up the ham After six-year legal battle, the European Court says prosciutto cannot be sliced up by a supermarket, packaged and sold as Parma ham

The Independent - London | May 21, 2003| | Copyright

THE PIGS are fed on whey left over from the making of parmesan cheese, the hams are cured for up to 10 months in stores built on the rolling Langhirano hills south of Parma. And as anyone knows who has watched an Italian droghiere (grocer) at work, slicing the resulting prosciutto (ham) is as skilled and exacting a process as producing it.

And now, after a judgement yesterday by the European Court of Justice, anyone buying pre-packaged Parma ham at a British supermarket can be sure that what they take home was not only raised and cured on the hills of Langhirano, but sliced and packed in the ...

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