February 16, 2016
NO SUCH THING AS QUALITY:
The Parmesan Cheese You Sprinkle on Your Penne Could Be Wood : Some brands promising 100 percent purity contained no Parmesan at all. (Lydia Mulvany, February 16, 2016, Bloomberg)
Acting on a tip, agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration paid a surprise visit to a cheese factory in rural Pennsylvania on a cold November day in 2012.They found what they were looking for: evidence that Castle Cheese Inc. was doctoring its 100 percent real parmesan with cut-rate substitutes and such fillers as wood pulp and distributing it to some of the country's biggest grocery chains.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 16, 2016 5:54 PM