Health

Danger from Italy
by Jana Passova

The French, Japanese, South Korean and people from Great Britain might be threatened by Italian cheese. Ministry of agriculture in France has given an advice to withdraw the certain type of mozzarella cheese from sale. The officials of UK do not think there is immediate risk to health of consumers. Japan and South Korea have given an impose to import that kind of cheese as well. Italy was told to be more careful with food safety and improve measures of safety. It was warned by the European Commission on Thursday. In the affected cheese, there was found a higher level of dioxins. The level was not excessive but it was above the maximum recommended amount. Dioxins are very dangerous and can cause cancer. That kind of cheese is made of buffalo milk at farms in region called Campania. Campania is a region of southern Italy near Naples. Mozzarella cheese is the traditional variety of Italian cheese. It is very important source of revenue for Italy. It produces 33.000 tonnes of this type of cheese yearly. 16 percent of this huge amount is exported.Italy said that milk, the source of contamination, has been destroyed already. In Campania region, there were checked 130 places where mozzarella cheese is produced. At 25 of controlled farms were found dioxins above the limits of the European Union. Paolo De Castro, the Italian Minister of Agriculture, also tried to to help this uncomfortable situation. He ate pieces of the cheese before the cameras of journalist. This gesture was way how to confirm that the cheese is no risky for health. There are some speculations that this problem is just a consequence of toxic waste that was illegally dumped on places which are used for pasture.

by Jana Passova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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