Mozzarella watered down by Italy's quality control chief
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Real Napolitan pizza and other classic Italian dishes rely on rich, stringy buffalo mozzarella as a key ingredient. But Luca Zaia, the agriculture minister, revealed yesterday that tests in leading supermarkets had found that a quarter of the cheese sold as buffalo mozzarella was fraudulent, because it contained almost one-third cow's milk. And even the president of the Mozzarella Consortium, Luigi Chianese, has been up to no good, said the minister, announcing Mr Chianese's suspension and the closure of the whole organisation.
"I have placed the consortium under appointed administration after inspections found that even its president was watering down his buffalo milk with cow milk," Mr Zaia announced.
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