Cheese companies, executive plead guilty to mislabeling products

COL Ted Mc wow greed and money=profit, what a shame.
"The Department of Justice prosecutes people and companies who introduce adulterated or misbranded food into interstate commerce," said U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton. "In this case, the fraud was perpetrated on consumers who purchased parmesan and romano cheeses that were inferior to what they believed they were buying."

A 2013 Food and Drug Administration report found that items labeled as "100 percent real parmesan and romano cheese" distributed through the company to various stores contained a combination of Swiss, mozzarella and white cheddar cheeses, as well as wood pulp.

The cheeses labeled as "100 percent real parmesan and romano cheese" did not meet the FDA's standards for such products and contained more than the permitted amount of cellulose, which derived from wood pulp, used as a filler.