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Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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I found technical details about the device: https://www.isenet.it/product/pharmaseq-products/ It's tiny (500 microns), passive, photocell-powered (you point a laser at it), and encapsulated in an inert SiO2 coating.

That confirms something I suspected: blockchain adds nothing to this solution, and is present only because of the fad.

I still don't get what it adds over a unique QR code.

Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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so my autistic child likes eating the rind if he can get a hold of it. Rinds are edible, so this is another case really of companies also screwing over the consumer - here are recipes you can use with the rind https://www.eataly.com/us_en/magazine/how-to/leftover-parmes... , although I guess not any more?

Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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I found technical details about the device: https://www.isenet.it/product/pharmaseq-products/ It's tiny (500 microns), passive, photocell-powered (you point a laser at it), and encapsulated in an inert SiO2 coating.

Doesn’t look edible to me.

It is not but it's half a millimeter and inert. I guess that all of us had sand in our mouths and occasionally ingested part of it. Furthermore we shouldn't have that part of the cheese.

Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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It's common for plant farmers in smaller countries too. I interviewed at a company that wanted to help banks lend to tiny farmers who have to borrow against future harvests to afford fertilizer / seed / equipment maintenance for the season ahead. Since many of these small farmers are geographically and technologically a long way off from where the banks are at, they don't get great rates because the banks (currently)…

This is how debt peons are made, historically. Kinda sad to see the same patterns in the modern world.

The same pattern is the FOUNDATION of the modern world!

The beauty of the current system is that because everyone has been told they are free, it is their own fault when they get trapped in a debt cycle.

Thus their own moral sense is the jailor.

Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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That confirms something I suspected: blockchain adds nothing to this solution, and is present only because of the fad.

I still don't get what it adds over a unique QR code.

A QR code is easy to copy? Im guessing this isn't.

Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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Interesting that it is injected (how deep) yet can still be powered by a laser.

SiO2 is glass. So it's a micron-sized silicon chip inside a glass capsule.

...under x mm of cheese.

Re: Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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I love the fact about them being coops and having the ability to borrow with their cheese as collateral. It is so old world and so wholesome. I'd like to borrow against my cheese one day.

It's common for plant farmers in smaller countries too. I interviewed at a company that wanted to help banks lend to tiny farmers who have to borrow against future harvests to afford fertilizer / seed / equipment maintenance for the season ahead. Since many of these small farmers are geographically and technologically a long way off from where the banks are at, they don't get great rates because the banks (currently)…

... which incidentally is the origin of the Commodity Market.
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