Canada’s cheese standards have withstood corporate court challenges by Saputo and Kraft.The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear an appeal the companies filed.
They previously lost lower-court challenges to the changes to regulations made in 2007 to set a limit on the use of milk solids instead of whole milk in cheese production.
The standards apply to both domestic and imported cheeses. Canadian dairy farmers lobbied the federal government to enact the regulation because their market was being eroded by imports of milk components that escape the high tariffs that enable Canadian farmers to enjoy the highest milk prices in the Western world.
