Vallelata blue mozzarella withdrawn: is it dangerous for health?

Without creating alarmism and psychosis, let’s go back to talking about blue mozzarella, Interested by the recall the mozzarella Vallelata; the company in question has invited all consumers to return the purchased product if it belongs to the investigated lot to the place where it was purchased, in any case the company reassures that it has withdrawn from the market all the lots in question.

Blue Mozzarella

Mozzarella takes on the blue color when in contact with the air, when the oxidation process of the indigo pigment produced by the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens present in the water used for dairy products has been triggered.

The cause today, as it was then, is the bacterium pseudomonas fluorescens which can form in milk and semi-processed foods.

The bacterium that determines the abnormal coloring of mozzarella is difficult to detect during the production and processing of dairy products as it occurs when the package is opened and the mozzarella or semi-finished product comes into contact with the air.

Even if it is not a problem for human health, the anomaly of seeing a product of a different color from the usual one has led and has created a small form of alarmism. To calm the concerns the declarations and health observations that through studies and analyzes made by the CNR of Bari and the experimental zoophilactic institute, announce that there is the possibility of isolating and making harmless the bacterium responsible for the blue color antibiotics.

For now, the contaminated and reported lots are:

The Lactalis group, to which the Vallelata brand belongs, apologizes to consumers in an official note.

It should be remembered that the blue color of mozzarella is only for large industrial productions and cannot be the case for buffalo mozzarella (which is a typically artisan product); therefore it is important to report any case to the seller in order to isolate and collect the lot in question not only from one’s own point of sale but from the entire distribution chain of the same product.

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