Buffalo mozzarella farms used to produce the PDO buffalo mozzarella DOP. On 19 April, China definitively removed the ban on mozzarella, originally activated on 28 March 2008, and tests held in December 2013 in Germany on behalf of four Italian consumer associations have highlighted dioxin and heavy metal levels at the lowest of five times at most permitted by law. To produce of cheese, a cheese maker requires of cow milk but only of buffalo milk. Producing 1 kg of butter requires of cow milk but only of buffalo milk. The steps required to produce buffalo mozzarella are: The digestive system of
Milk Link creamery at Frome. In February 2004 it set up The Cheese Company with Kilkenny-based Glanbia, which had four cheese processing sites producing product for frozen pizzas, in which it took a 75% stake. In December 2006 it bought out Glanbia for £47.2 million. In July 2005 it closed a site at Sible Hedingham. From October 2007 to February 2008 there were talks to merge with First Milk. In August 2011 it split into two divisions named 'Milk Link, Cheese' and 'Milk Link, Milk'. In September 2011 it announced that it would increase the size of the Lockerbie creamery by 50%