date:May 22, 2012
According to reports from the country, over 300,000 wheels of the popular Italian hard cheeses were destroyed after warehouses and storage facilities collapsed. Machinery and specialised equipment was also destroyed.
'Fresh' six month old cheeses were worst affected by the quake, after seasoning shelves also known as scalere collapsed.
The earthquake was very strong and heavily damaged the structure of many warehouses as well as thousands of tonnes [of the cheeses],head of the Grana Padano C