Buffalo cheese without a gram of buffalo milk has been detected on the Bulgarian market

Published 2023년 9월 21일

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The "Association for affordable and quality food" in Bulgaria has discovered that many brands of "sheep's cheese" on the market actually contain cow's milk, with one popular product containing no buffalo milk at all. The association tested 10 types of Bulgarian sheep's cheese and yellow cheese and found that only one was made from sheep's milk alone. This discovery not only deceives consumers who pay a higher price for supposedly pure sheep's cheese but also poses health risks to those who buy the product for health reasons.
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"Buffalo cheese" without a single gram of buffalo milk has been found on the Bulgarian market. The "find" is the "Association for affordable and quality food", which ordered a test of local brands of cheese and yellow cheese in an accredited international laboratory. 10 types of Bulgarian sheep's cheese and yellow cheese were tested, and the results show that only one of the tested most expensive and popular products of this type was made only from sheep's milk, the association announced. The rest, apart from sheep's milk, contain up to 50% cow's milk and are practically a mixture, and are declared as sheep's cheese. The research is part of a program of civil control of food products. "This, unfortunately, apparently widespread practice among Bulgarian cheese producers, not only harms the consumers who pay the higher price. It is dangerous, as it misleads people who buy ...
Source: Trud

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