Stomach-churning footage shows more than 16 of the parasitic bugs writhing around what was supposed to be their Morrisons ...

Costanzo Carta takes a big knife, cuts into a chunky wheel of tawny cheese and there they are, white and wriggling in a lively fashion: maggots. “Try it, it won’t do you any harm,” he says ...

It’s illegal to sell or buy, but casu marzu, a maggot-infested sheep milk cheese is a revered delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia. Locals hope their unusual dairy product can shed its ...

Cato and Sean Cooper, from Taunton West, Somerset, bought the Président-branded French cheese from a Morrisons Daily store ...

Even looking at pictures of the cheese is somewhat naseauting, as the maggots that help create the cheese are prevalent within it. They’re also extremely active, and are capable of jumping up to ...

Cato and Sean Cooper had purchased Président French Brie from a Morrisons Daily in Taunton West, Somerset, to have for their ...

In Sardinia’s rural villages, small-scale production continues, with wheels of cheese passed quietly between neighbours and friends, or presented at family feasts where tradition trumps legislation.

Morrisons insists the rotted cheese was the result of an ‘isolated incident’ A couple who opened a new pack of Morrisons brie to find it was infested with maggots have hit out at the ...

The maggots eat the cheese, they digest it, they poo it out and it becomes creamy.” He admits though that it is something of a “niche product”. “It’s a tradition that is in decline.