The specialist sour milk cheese label Harzinger has pioneered a new packaging for one of its latest products.

Not only does the packaging allow the cheese to continue ripening, it also comprises over 95% natural biodegradable material.
The new Harzinger mould cheese is from organically produced milk and made according to a traditional method developed high in the mid-German Harz Mountains. The producer is the Poelmeyer Group from Wohlmirstedt in Saxony-Anhalt.
The international firm Wipack worked together with the Harzinger cheese makers for the packaging breakthrough. The outer skin is made from crop starch material, which claims to have the same stability and food safety characteristics as conventional polymer packaging. The interior features a transparent plastic mould to protect the cheese contents during storage and transport. On top is a foil lid that allows in oxygen for continued ripening of the mould cheese.