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FRENAROS: Stella Kyriakidou's visit to the "SOMIS" cheese factory (PHOTO)

The Commissioner for Health and Food Safety of the European Union, Mr. Stella Kyriakidou, visited the "SOMIS" cheese factory on Saturday, 01/10.

The "SOMIS" company supplies Scandinavia with halloumi, specifically Sweden, which is the second country in terms of per capita consumption of halloumi around the world, after Cyprus. Our national product has emerged at the global level.

The Ministry of Agriculture as well as the Commissioner of Health and Food Safety act as supporting bodies in this effort both for the production and for the promotion of halloumi.

In this context, the Commissioner of the country was at the cheese factory where she watched the cheese making process step by step while she had the opportunity to try fresh halloumi.

The "SOMIS" cheese factory, one of the most historic cheese factories in our country, which produced the first halloumi with a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) in Cyprus in 2021, in the presence of the honorable Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Costa Kadi. Halloumi's patenting in Cyprus is a historic event for our country.

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