Parmigiano Reggiano is top of Italy's food shoplifting charts, a new study said Thursday.
''The king of Italian cheeses is not only the biggest target of international food piracy but also the food item most regularly stolen from Italian supermarket shelves,'' the CIA farmers association said, citing a 2007 shoplifting study.
One in ten Parmigiano packages gets lifted by shop thieves, CIA said, putting it ahead of packaged meat and salami at one in twenty.
Only two items, both non-food, were a more popular target than Parmigiano: disposable razors and printer ink cartridges.
Almost a quarter of throwaway razor packs gets nicked, CIA said, while 15% of ink cartridges disappears through the turnstiles.
