The Region - News from Feb. 19, 1987

The owner of a Carson cheese company was charged with nine misdemeanor violations of the state Food and Agriculture Code from August, 1985, to last October, a spokesman for the district attorney’s office said. Health inspectors issued four warnings to Salvatore Mannino, owner and operator of Fiordelatti Cheese Co., which made mozzarella cheese from raw milk and supplied it to restaurants and bakeries. The warnings said that a truck in which the raw milk was transported could not be sanitized and a pasteurizing vat did not maintain a heat level sufficient to kill microorganisms. Last December Mannino was ordered to stop producing the cheese. He is to be arraigned March 3.