Italy: Boom in Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP, but there is a risk of costs

Absolute production record for Mozzarella di Bufala Campana pdo in 2021. 54,481,000 kilograms of pdo brand mozzarella were produced, even exceeding the pre-pandemic levels and scoring a + 7.5% on 2020 and a +8 , 5% on 2019. Approximately 70% of the milk suitable for PDO was transformed into Buffalo Buffalo, while the remainder was downgraded to produce other types of buffalo dairy products. Numbers that tell of a thriving and constantly expanding sector, but which risk being thwarted by the generalized increase in costs for companies, which have caused an increase in the selling price to the consumer which is still limited for now. The alarm was raised by the president of the Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP protection consortium, Domenico Raimondo. "There is an abundance of milk - explains Raimondo - and we have already demonstrated an immediate ability to react and great resilience during the acute phase of the pandemic. Now the supply chain could still grow, but instead it ...