Parmesan Makers Add Microchips To Cheese Wheels To Foil Counterfeiters

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Parmesan Makers Add Microchips To Cheese Wheels To Foil Counterfeiters
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How in the hell do you counterfeit CHEESE????

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.