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Under My Mozzarella (Ella, Ella, Eh, Eh, Eh)
Trash likely the source of dioxin tainting Italy's mozzarella |
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28 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:11 PM on 28 Mar 2008 Some batches of Italy's famous buffalo mozzarella cheese have been tainted with dioxin, leading to alarm in the nation's $500 million mozzarella industry. The source of the contamination? Buffalo near Naples are likely grazing in soil tainted with dioxin from piles of toxic garbage that the mafia-controlled trash business can't, or won't, get under control. ... |
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| Topics: food, Italy, news, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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