Next time you buy Parmesan, watch out for the microchip. Food producers are going to ever greater lengths to protect their billion-dollar markets against knockoffs.
supporting links
1. Stop Fake Food [website]
2. p-Chip [website]
3. Battle against China's fake foods drives new tech frontier [The Straits Times]
4. Food fraud: can we trust the authenticity of our food? [Eit Food]
5. Honeygate: How Europe is being flooded with fake honey [EURACTIV]
6. 27,000 tones of Food Fraud [EUROPOL]
7. Fake Foods: What You Need to Know About Food Swindlers [Delishably]
8. Edible Microchips: Too Hard to Swallow? [ACSM Org]
9. Half of EU's imported honey supply is suspected to be fake [FoodWatch]
10. List of Italian food and drink products with protected status [Wikipedia]
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