{"id":504840,"date":"2023-08-21T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=504840"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:29:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:29:18","slug":"why-this-cheesemaker-is-injecting-its-parmesan-with-edible-microchips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/504840-why-this-cheesemaker-is-injecting-its-parmesan-with-edible-microchips.html","title":{"rendered":"Why cheesemakers are injecting their parmesan with edible microchips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips in their cheese in an attempt to beat counterfeiters, the Wall Street Journal reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The microchips offer blockchain-backed tracking, and real-time inventory control features that help buyers differentiate between authentic and fake products.<\/p>\n

“We keep fighting with new methods,” the Wall Street Journal quoted Alberto Pecorari, the man in charge of protecting Parmigiano’s authenticity for the group representing producers, as saying.<\/p>\n

“We won’t give up,” he added.<\/p>\n

The chips are stuck to cheese wheels with the help of a casein label. It’s the size of a grain of sand, and the casein label makes it safe to digest.<\/p>\n

The authenticity of the cheese wheel is revealed by scanning the microchip with a laser reader, which gives a unique serial ID for the wheel.<\/p>\n

More than 3,500 European food products, including Italian Parma ham, French Champagne, and Greek feta cheese, have received protected status.<\/p>\n

Parmigiano-Reggiano manufacturers want to protect the authenticity of their cheese as it comes from a specific region and is made using strictly defined materials and methods.<\/p>\n

“Fake” Parmigiano-Reggiano producers don’t follow some or all of the defined materials and methods but still claim to be the real deal.<\/p>\n

Another form of authenticating foods that have received protected status is the use of QR codes.<\/p>\n

One such example is the addition of QR codes to individual portions of pre-sliced Proscuitto di San Daniele \u2014 a raw ham similar to Proscuitto di Parma.<\/p>\n

A smartphone can scan the QR code to show information such as how long the prosciutto has been aged and when it was sliced.<\/p>\n

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Microchips placed in Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels use blockchain and real-time inventory control features to help buyers differentiate between authentic and fake products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":504842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696,15],"tags":[88690,38499,88680,88678,88676,11585],"class_list":["post-504840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","category-hardware","tag-alberto-pecorari","tag-blockchain","tag-laser-scanner","tag-microchip","tag-parmigiano-reggiano","tag-qr-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504960,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504840\/revisions\/504960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}