Buffalo Mozzarella Dioxin Scare Widens
As you may or may not know, there's a lot of hoo-hah going on about garbage in and around Naples, Italy. The city's dumps were declared full and shut down late last year, and trash was allowed to pile up in the streets, spurring illegal dumping on the outskirts of town. What's this have to do with food, and more specifically, pizza? Well, it's outside of Naples where that prized pizza ingredient, buffalo mozzarella, is made. And now, dioxin, possibly from toxic trash, has been found in some shipments of the cheese. This new story picks up where an earlier one left off, detailing the Italians' efforts to fight the scare, and it notes that South Korea has now banned imports of the cheese. (Japan has followed suit as well.) Even some Italian pizzerias are starting to switch to cow's milk mozzarella (buffalo mozzarella is, of course, made from the milk of the water buffalo).
