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floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Parmesan Makers Add Microchips To Cheese Wheels To Foil Counterfeiters

www.tomshardware.com

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Parmesan Makers Add Microchips To Cheese Wheels To Foil Counterfeiters

www.tomshardware.com

floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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p-Chip micro-transponders are tiny, rigid crypto anchors.
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    How in the hell do you counterfeit CHEESE???

    • Bye@lemmy.world
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      They make it somewhere else, and pass it off as if it’s made in a region with a protected name. For example, making sparkling wine in California and saying it’s champagne.

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        We should have done that with poutine…

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      omg cheese fraud is real??

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