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SINGAPORE : The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has stopped all sales of Italian buffalo mozzarella cheese in Singapore.
This precautionary move came following reports of unusually high levels of toxic chemical dioxin detected in the milk used to produce the cheese in some Italian farms.
About 106 kilogrammes of the cheese was last imported into Singapore on January 6 this year.
AVA is currently conducting lab tests to determine whether such cheese sold here have been affected.
Japan and South Korea are the only other two countries to have suspended the import of the cheese. - CNA /ls
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