login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Farms Quarantined as Health Concerns Resurface Over Italian Mozzarella
"The 102 potentially contaminated buffalo farms were placed under sanitary quarantine," the health and agriculture ministries said in a joint statement.
Serious concerns over Italian mozzarella first emerged in mid-March when samples of the cheese, made from buffalo milk, were found to have raised levels of dioxin, which increases the likelihood of cancer.
A total of 83 buffalo farms in the southern region were quarantined then. Of those, 20 were found to have higher than approved dioxin levels.
A crisis was averted then after Italy recalled the contaminated mozzarella and the European Commission declared itself satisfied and France lifted restrictions it had already put in place.
Nevertheless, Singapore subsequently joined Japan and South Korea in banning Italian mozzarella sales as a precautionary measure.
Tuesday’s latest data showed that of 271 samples of buffalo milk taken from 173 makers of mozzarella cheese in the southern Naples, Caserta and Avellino provinces, 14.4 percent did not conform to the advised European Union limits for dioxin.
Milk samples from the neighbouring Benevento and Salerno provinces were found to conform with EU regulations, the statement added.
Naples and the surrounding Campania region is still struggling to recover from the crisis provoked by thousands of tonnes of uncollected rubbish.
|
|
|
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
- News Quick Links
 | News Central | | Health Watch | |
| Latest Health News | | Health In Focus | |
| News Category (500+) | | Breaking Health News | |
| Popular News | | Celebrating Life | |
| Health News and Press Release | | Medindia - Exclusive | |
| News Photo Gallery | | India Special | |
| News Video Gallery | | Lifestyle and Wellness | |
| News From Other Resources | |||
 |
face
Complete Medindia Resources
|
| News Categories: |
| » | Cardio-Pulmonary Function can be a Strong Indicator for Survival Chances of Breast Cancer Patients |
| » | Post Surgery Will the Tumour Return? New Breast Cancer Test to Predict Exactly |
| » | Scientists Develop Compound That Triggers Cancer Cell Death |
| » | Iraqi National Hopes to Find Affordable Treatment for His Cancer in India |
| » | New Technique can Help Doctors Detect Pancreatic Cancer |
| More Cancer News | |
|
Diet & Nutrition Related News |
||||||||
| » | Olympic Athlete's Body Via the 80-10-10 Raw Vegan Diet | » | Importance of Canned Foods To Help Tackle IOM Weight Of The Nation Recommendations, Highlights Study | |||||
| » | US Rules Pomegranate Juice Claims Deceptive | » | Reducing Entrée Size Could Increase Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Children | |||||
| » | Dieters Should Eat 300 Calories Less to Avoid Regaining Lost Weight After Dieting | » | Doctors Advise People to Eat Healthy Food to Stay Cool This Summer | |||||
| » | Link Between Meat Consumption and Masculinity | » | First Study to Explore the Benefits of Fish Oils at the Cellular Level | |||||
| Read More >> | ||||||||
