EU Threatens Ban on Italian Mozzarella

A mozzarella cheese producer holds up a "treccia" (braid) of buffalo mozzarella during a demonstration organized by mozzarella producers to prove the quality of their cheese, outside the Lazio Region offices, in Rome, Thursday, March 27, 2008. EU officials threatened Rome Thursday with a possible Europe-wide ban on mozzarella from Italy's Campania region unless they get more details about production of the cheese, samples of which were found to contain higher-than-permitted levels of dioxins. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)