Welcome to Grapes & Cheese Food & Origin Consultants, the only organization specifically dedicated to origin issues with the labeling of food and agricultural products (including geographical indications) on the international scene...  more

Jean-Christophe Mény-Boze, founder and director of Grapes and Cheese Food & Origin Consultants, qualified as an intellectual property lawyer in France in 2002. He has since then acquired a unique international expertise on geographical indication and food... more

Here are some of the ways in which we can assist you: -registration of GIs with the European Union: ideally based in Brussels, Belgium, home of the European Commission, we assist producers or state bodies from non-EU countries in dealing with the registration process of their geographical indications with the European Union (either as a Protected Designation of...  more

Here is a selection of useful links:

-Alcohol and Tobacco Tax  and Trade Bureau - TTB  (USA)

-Appellation America (USA)

-Codex Alimentarius (United Nations)

-Cornell University's Food and Drug Law (USA)

-Drake University's Agricultural Law Center (USA)... more

Grapes & Cheese Food & Origin Consultants -Chaussée de Saint Job, 113 - 1180 Brussels (Belgium)

giconsultants@grapesandcheese.com