Italian Police Arrest Mozzarella King

Giuseppe Mandara, the self-dubbed "Armani of Mozzarella," has been arrested and his company has been seized after police investigators charged that the businessman was controlled by the Casalesi clan from the Camorra or Neapolitan Mafia as reported by AFP.  The Mandora Group is one of Italy's largest mozzarella manufacturers, and is a major global exporter of the product.  Apparently, the company was misrepresenting its product as buffalo mozzarella when the the cheese was made with less expensive cow's milk, and it also allegedly was mislabelling ordinary provolone as a premium variety.