MOZZARELLA RECALL FOLLOWS CONTAMINATION CONCERNS
March 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is monitoring concerns that Italian mozzarella cheese has been contaminated with dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs, amidst claims that the refuse crisis in Naples' Campania region generated the responsible pollutants. Brussels was poised to ban the sale of the white melting cheese, but was mollified by a safety recall by Italian health authorities. Britain has also not imposed a supermarket ban, although France has raised some restrictions and full-scale import bans have been ordered by China, Japan and South Korea.
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