About a month ago, my class was discussing food scares and my professor asked us to imagine a mozzarella cheese scare. I wrote about it on February 26, 2008, in a post titles "Oh, hell no!" Well, the unthinkable has happened.
There have high samples of dioxin found in samples of Italy's famous buffalo mozzarella, recently. "Dioxin, a chemical environmental pollutant, can be hazardous even in small amounts. When it accumulates in the body, it can be linked to cancer, birth defects and organ failure." The toxic cheese is said to come from a few buffalo dairies in southern Italy and are due to garbage that is months old. The product is now held under strict health and chemical controls. There are investigations being held on the link between the garbage and the toxins. The garbage dumping is said to be mafia related.
I find this very interesting and some what scary. Read more at http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/03/21/italy.cheese.ap/index.html
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