The European Commission on Friday announced it was satisfied with Italian action on a mozzarella dioxin scare.
The EC said it saw no reason for further action on the scare, which has hit exports of the famed Italian cheese.
Commission spokeswoman Nina Papadoulaki voiced confidence that ''everything will swiftly return to normal''.
She expressed ''satisfaction'' with the measures Italy had taken on the scare, praising Italian authorities for blocking cheese from suspect farms.
The EC clarified that France had not applied an import block on mozzarella, as earlier reported.
French authorities had merely stepped up checks to make sure the mozzarella arriving at French supermarkets was OK.
The EC said the French moves were ''in line'' with what Italy was already doing.
France started random testing of shipments on Friday, soon followed by Portugal.
Meanwhile, Japan freed up mozzarella shipments that had been frozen at Japanese airports for the last few days.
South Korea lifted a ban on other Italian cheese but said it was keeping its mozzarella embargo for the moment.
Italian Health Minister Livia Turco asked the EC to work together in checking mozzarella, one of the main products of the Campania region whose tourist industry has been laid low by a months-long trash crisis.
Farm Minister Paolo De Castro welcomed the EC decision, saying ''we were expecting it''.
He told ANSA the EC wanted to be sure that milk from suspect farms had been stopped.
''We must escape from this media bubble,'' he said.
''Step by step, we are doing everything that the European Commission has asked us to do''.
The EC said Thursday that ''safeguard measures'' might be needed for Campania mozzarella production.
Italian health police on Friday swept through Campania to carry out inspections and check hygiene certificates at mozzarella plants and buffalo farms.
Earlier this week Italy halted production at more than 80 plants after excessive levels of dioxin and another dangerous contaminant were found. Work at a dozen farms has since resumed.
The Italian foreign ministry has issued assurances that no potentially unsafe products have been exported.
Some reports have linked the dioxin scare to the Campania trash crisis but Italian scientists have rebutted these suggestions, saying the excessive dioxin traces probably came from contaminated feed.
Health officials have said the contamination of buffalo milk and mozzarella has been ''limited and only slightly above acceptable levels''.
The vast majority of herds producing buffalo milk in the area and the mozzarella produced were free from any contamination, they said.
According to mozzarella producers, the contamination scare has already resulted in a 30% drop in sales and losses of some 30 million euros.
