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Recommended Daily Allowance

The place of production is not written in words, but it is marked on the packaging. It makes up the health mark in accordance with a European Community directive.
This number is made up of 7 digits:
• The first two numbers: the number of the French department (e.g.: 39 for the Jura)
• The following three: the INSEE number of the place where the factory is situated (e.g.: 300 Lons le Saunier)
• The last two numbers: the approval delivered by the local veterinary services (e.g.: 01)
• “F” indicates the country of manufacture, in this case France.

Today French regulations state that the fat content of cheeses should be expressed as proportion of 100 g of the dry matter or dry extract (i.e. without the water that makes it up) and not as a proportion of 100 g of the finished product.
For example, a cheese labelled with a fat content of 40 %: the dry extract is 50%, the fat content represents 20 g of the 100 g of the finished product i.e. 20%.
A new regulation, which will soon come into effect, will modify the fat content labelling of cheeses and this will be expressed as a proportion of the total weight of the cheese and no longer of the dry extract, using the above example, it would be shown as 20%.

The use by date: the use by date is a strict date used for a product whose lifespan is short (for example fresh cheeses, yoghurts etc). The product should be removed from sale before this date.
The best before date is merely indicative, the product can be consumed for a few days after the date shown as long as it has been stored in the right conditions. Our products carry a best by date.