Italian Parmigiano Reggiano cheesemakers, who make "real" parmesan cheese, are inserting tracking chips into the rinds of their cheese wheels in an effort to undermine shady competitors who ...

Italian producers of parmesan cheese are fighting against imitations by installing edible microchips. Parmigiano-Reggiano will have microchips on their 90-pound cheese wheels as part of an endless ...

A storage area for Parmesan cheese wheels is pictured at storehouse shelf at 4 Madonne Caseificio dell'Emilia dairy cooperative in Modena, Italy, February 16 2016. Alessandro Bianchi / REUTERS ...

The chips contain digital authentication. “We keep fighting with new methods,” Alberto Pecorari, who handles authenticity issues for the Parmesan consortium, told the Journal.

Later this year, the consortium will begin adding tracking chips to the real Parmigiano-Reggiano. To start with, 100,000 wheels of the cheese will have the tiny trackers embedded in the casein ...

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The Consortium of Parmigiano Reggiano, an 89-year-old trade organization focused entirely on this variety of cheese, has spent the last few years testing the p-Chip for safety and reliability.