Technical department missions
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If the A.O.C. sets out the production regulations concerning the milk and cheese, it only guarantees a cheese manufactured according to the regulations, with no shortfall in terms of the quality of its rind, texture or taste.
Only changes concerning the production stages can improve the quality.
A technical department at the disposal of each dairy
The Union Of Beaufort Producers, bringing together dairy cooperatives (71.1 % of tonnage), established a technical department in 1965.
It is open to all producers with a subscription of 10.14 ¤/1000 litres of milk transformed.
The technical support available is appropriate for the regulations concerning the appellation. It is better to improve upon mastering the traditional steps in Beaufort production than to distort the specificity of Beaufort.
Its missions are as follows:
- Regular monitoring of each producer's milk in order to guarantee optimum bacteriological purity for the milk used for production ;
- Cheese producers' association assistance. The technicians help in the manufacturing process. They dialogue between the technicians and can help solve technological problems ;
- Organisation of technical classification carried out each month under the auspices of the Institut Technique des Fromagers Français.
Other actions are also instigated : sensorial analysis in order to better apprehend taste and its diversity or authentification (heel marking) of summer and Alpine cheeses at the moment when they leave the maturing cellars.
SYNDICAT DE DÉFENSE DU FROMAGE BEAUFORT
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