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A name pressed into the crust.
Also known as: Casein plate, Cheese branding
The mark impressed into a cheese rind recording its dairy, batch and protected name.
Record the dairy, the batch and the protected designation of a cheese.
Contexts: History, Public information
Applied at moulding rather than after maturing, so the mark ages with the cheese and cannot be added to a finished wheel — the same before-the-object logic as a watermark.
Contexts: History, Public information
A wheel failing inspection has its marks physically removed or defaced, so exclusion from a protected name is enforced by destroying the mark rather than by withholding it.
Contexts: History, Public information
Letters and small devices impressed into the rind at moulding, sometimes with a thin circular plate embedded in the crust carrying a serial number.