Italian buffalo mozzarella: confrontation over frozen milk

The extension to the production disciplinary, until June 30, of the use of frozen milk by dairies for buffalo mozzarella from Campania DOP, does not help the livestock sector and does not enhance the image of the product towards consumers. Confagricoltura underlines this in relation to the ministerial decree passed. The measure, initially approved last March during the lockdown period - according to Confagricoltura - did not bring benefits to producers and generated a situation of confusion and little transparency that had to be corrected and not increased. “We find there is a lack of certainty in the data on the quantities of milk that the dairies have stored and on the semi-transformed products (curds) that have derived from it and how many of these have been used so far. And, in fact, the rigid control system envisaged between milked PDO milk and processed PDO product has been significantly diminished ”. For Confagricoltura, the road to pursue must be to complete the path ...