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EMD Group

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and p-Chip close the gap between physical and digital trust layers

In collaboration, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and p-Chip Corporation are advancing a digital platform combining software and hardware components that allows customers to create digital twins of single physical products and prove their authenticity throughout the product life cycle. The combined solution enables the usage of p-Chip microtransponders as crypto-anchors and facilitates the seamless integration of corresponding reader devices into customers' existing processes, ensuring digital authenticity and trust...

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WIRED

Italian cheesemakers are putting microchips in Parmesan cheese to fight crime

A microchip inside cheese sounds amusing, but the Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano (CFPR) has a valid reason for going ahead with the process. One of the oldest and most famous cheeses, Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan), is the pride of Italian cheesemakers. Rightly so, since it takes them two years to produce one parmesan cheese wheel, unfortunately, its premium price attracts many counterfeiters who leverage the brand and its product reputation....

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Fortune

Parmesan cheese makers in Italy are fighting counterfeits by embedding edible microchips in their products

How do you tell the difference between a block of beloved Italian parmesan and a copycat? Just look for the one with a chip in it. Producers fed up with phony products flooding the market have begun......

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The Guardian

Cheese and chips: parmesan producers fight fakes with microtransponders

Cheese and chips: parmesan producers fight fakes with microtransponders Counterfeits are the bane of the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, which is now trialling tech in the rind. When is a cheese not what it seems? When it’s a fake parmesan. Italy’s renowned parmigiano reggiano, favoured for finishing off bowls of pasta and rocket salads, is one of the most counterfeited cheeses in the world. Now its manufacturers have found a new way to hit back against the lookalikes: by adding microchips....

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AOL.

Parmesan cheese makers in Italy are fighting counterfeits by embedding edible microchips in their products

How do you tell the difference between a block of beloved Italian parmesan and a copycat? Just look for the one with a chip in it. Producers fed up with phony products flooding the market have begun embedding edible microchips into their cheese wheels. It's a bid to help consumers distinguish between authentic Parmigiano-Reggiano—or parmesan—and fakes, according to the Wall Street Journal....

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CBS News

Italian cheesemakers microchip parmesan in bid to fight copycats

One of the world's most famous cheeses is also one of the most counterfeited dairy products on the planet. Competing manufacturers have for years produced cheaper imitations of Italy's parmigiano reggiano, a favored topping for pasta and salad. Now, the producers of parmigiano reggiano say they have innovated a way to prevent any pretenders from ripping off their product. ...

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Wall Street Journal

Food producers are going to ever greater lengths to protect their billion-dollar markets against knockoffs

Parmigiano-Reggiano producers are seeking new ways to protect the market for the world-famous pasta topping. Their latest trick to beat counterfeiters is edible microchips. Italian producers of parmesan cheese have been fighting against imitations for years. Now, makers of Parmigiano-Reggiano, as the original parmesan cheese is officially called, are slapping the microchips on their 90-pound cheese wheels as part of an endless cat-and-mouse game between makers of authentic and fake products....

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The Times

Cheesed-off Italians microchip parmesan to tackle fraudsters

Producers of parmesan cheese are fighting fraudsters who try to copy their protected product by embedding microchips into the thick wax covering. The makers of Parmigiano Reggiano, the hard granular cheese also known as parmesan, are inserting the silicon semiconductors to indicate that their product is genuine as the battle intensifies against counterfeit versions....

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Business Insider

Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters

Makers of Parmigiano-Reggiano are implanting microchips into the casings of their 90-pound cheese wheels as the latest move to ward off counterfeiters, The Wall Street Journal reported. Yes, there are counterfeiters of Parmigiano-Reggiano. That's because it's the original parmesan cheese officially protected by the European Union, meaning the name can only be used for the authentic product. Parmigiano-Reggiano must be made in a particular area of northern Italy's Emilia Romagna region and with specific production standards and techniques. It also has to be aged for at least one year....

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PR Newswire

Data Vault Holdings, Inc. and p-Chip Corporation to Connect Platforms through Enabling IP Licensing Agreement

Data Vault Holdings, Inc., the emerging leader in metaverse data visualization, valuation, and the monetization of data assets, and p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for an Intellectual Property Licensing Agreement....

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GlobeNewswire

Food-safe microchips could be Canada’s answer to food traceability concerns

Canadians overwhelmingly feel it is important to understand the ingredients they are putting in their body. This is according to a new survey by The Consortium of Parmigiano Reggiano....

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Street Insider

Food-safe microchips could be Canada’s answer to food traceability concerns

Canadians overwhelmingly feel it is important to understand the ingredients they are putting in their body. This is according to a new survey by The Consortium of Parmigiano Reggiano....

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19 News

Tiny tags developed in Elyria tracing food and drug origins, ensuring consumer safety

A local lab is creating technology as small as a grain of salt, and attaching it to things we eat, medicine, even car parts, to ensure they’re safe and authentic. Every year there’s roughly four and a half million wheels of Parmesan Reggiano cheese made in Italy. It’s a process and product highly regulated and so valuable they’re used as collateral in large loans. And now, technology at a lab in Elyria is helping protect the integrity and safety of these and other foods all over the world, through something called a P-Chip, barely detectable to the naked eye....

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Heritge Radio Network

Tracking Your Cheese: Parmigiano Reggiano's p-Chip Technology

Where’s my cheese? The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium is currently testing food-safe, digital labels on its cheese wheels. The p-Chip micro transponders deliver previously unseen levels of traceability, inventory tracking and control, product authentication, quality-assurance testing, product serialization, and consumer safety. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Riccardo Deserti, Director of The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, and Massimo Baio, Director of Business Development EMEA - p-Chip, about merging a 900-year old cheese tradition with cutting edge digital tracking technology....

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PR Newswire

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and p-Chip Corporation Collaborate to Improve Trust and Transparency in Machine-to-Machine Driven Industrial Value Chains

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, and p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced the conclusion of a joint development agreement to develop and implement a new solution that offers never-before-seen levels of digital trust in machine-to-machine (M2M)-connected industrial value chains....

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Yahoo! Finance

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and p-Chip Corporation Collaborate to Improve Trust and Transparency in Machine-to-Machine Driven Industrial Value Chains

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, and p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced the conclusion of a joint development agreement to develop and implement a new solution that offers never-before-seen levels of digital trust in machine-to-machine (M2M)-connected industrial value chains....

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Markets Insider

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and p-Chip Corporation Collaborate to Improve Trust and Transparency in Machine-to-Machine Driven Industrial Value Chains

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, and p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced the conclusion of a joint development agreement to develop and implement a new solution that offers never-before-seen levels of digital trust in machine-to-machine (M2M)-connected industrial value chains....

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Yahoo! Finance Singapore

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and p-Chip Corporation Collaborate to Improve Trust and Transparency in Machine-to-Machine Driven Industrial Value Chains

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, and p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced the conclusion of a joint development agreement to develop and implement a new solution that offers never-before-seen levels of digital trust in machine-to-machine (M2M)-connected industrial value chains....

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Yahoo! Finance Australia

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and p-Chip Corporation Collaborate to Improve Trust and Transparency in Machine-to-Machine Driven Industrial Value Chains

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, and p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced the conclusion of a joint development agreement to develop and implement a new solution that offers never-before-seen levels of digital trust in machine-to-machine (M2M)-connected industrial value chains....

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Yahoo! News Philippines

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and p-Chip Corporation Collaborate to Improve Trust and Transparency in Machine-to-Machine Driven Industrial Value Chains

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, and p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced the conclusion of a joint development agreement to develop and implement a new solution that offers never-before-seen levels of digital trust in machine-to-machine (M2M)-connected industrial value chains....

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Market Insider

p-Chip Corporation Food-Tracing Breakthrough to be Featured on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid

p-Chip Corporation, a company revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced it will be featured on the educational documentary series, Viewpoint, developed for Public Television....

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Market Watch

p-Chip Corporation Food-Tracing Breakthrough to be Featured on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid

p-Chip Corporation, a company revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced it will be featured on the educational documentary series, Viewpoint, developed for Public Television. ...

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Yahoo! Finance

p-Chip Corporation Food-Tracing Breakthrough to be Featured on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid

p-Chip Corporation, a company revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced it will be featured on the educational documentary series, Viewpoint, developed for Public Television....

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AP News

p-Chip Corporation Food-Tracing Breakthrough to be Featured on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid

p-Chip Corporation, a company revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced it will be featured on the educational documentary series, Viewpoint, developed for Public Television....

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PR Newswire

p-Chip Corporation Food-Tracing Breakthrough to be Featured on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid

p-Chip Corporation today announced it will be featured on the educational documentary series, Viewpoint, developed for Public Television. The award-winning series, which has been running for 18 years, produces educational documentaries on a range of topics including technology, finance, business....

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Viewpoint

Soon to Be Featured on Viewpoint

This video preview covers some content and interviews reviewed in the upcoming show Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid, exploring a breakthrough partnership that launched a first-to-market line of secure, food-contact safe digital tracking labels. View the video...

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AiThority

p-Chip Corporation Introduces First-of-its-Kind p-Chip Code Tracker to Revolutionize QR Code Security

p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its cutting-edge microtransponder technology, introduced its newest breakthrough, the p-Chip Code secure tracking tag. The p-Chip Code tracker combines a silicon-based p-Chip microtransponder with a standard 2D matrix code...

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PR Newswire

p-Chip Corporation Introduces First-of-its-Kind p-Chip Code Tracker to Revolutionize QR Code Security

p-Chip Corporation, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its cutting-edge microtransponder technology, today introduced its newest breakthrough, the p-Chip Code™ secure tracking tag. The p-Chip Code tracker combines a silicon-based p-Chip® microtransponder with a standard 2D matrix code to create hyper-secure QR codes, bar codes and other matrix codes....

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Security Systems News

p-Chip Corporation Code Tracker Enhances QR Code Security

The p-Chip Corporation, a maker of microtransponder technology for tracking physical products and materials have announced a new code tracker for QR codes. Their product is the p-Chip Code™ secure tracking tag which combines the silicon-based p-Chip microtransponder with a standard 2D matrix code, creating a “hyper-secure” QR code...

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Yahoo! News

p-Chip Corporation Introduces First-of-its-Kind p-Chip Code Tracker to Revolutionize QR Code Security

The p-Chip Code tracker combines a silicon-based p-Chip® microtransponder with a standard 2D matrix code to create hyper-secure QR codes, bar codes and other matrix codes....

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Gdoweek (Italiano)

Parmigiano Reggiano sperimenta l’etichetta digitale

La digitalizzazione sta trasformando l’agroalimentare. Il Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano Dop, tra i brand simbolo del made in Italy nel mondo, è protagonista di un’azione avanguardistica: un’innovativa etichetta digitale in grado di rendere ancora più tracciabile e sicuro il prodotto...

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Wonderful Engineering

Cheesemakers Makers Are Embedding Tiny Trackers In Parmesan – To Fight Cheese Fraud

Italian Parmigiano Reggiano producers have begun inserting tracking chips into their cheese heads. This allows you to distinguish real cheese from fake. The courts have frequently ruled that “Parmigiano” cheese can only be made in Italy. Just as Champagne can only be produced in France, a European Union court ruled in 2008 that cheese can only be sold as...

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The Byte

Cheesemakers Embedding Tiny Tracking Chips in Parmesan

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 falsely claim they make real parmesan cheese...

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Tasting Table

The Clever Way Some Cheesemakers Are Fighting Cheese Fraud

Have you heard the one about the cheese burglar who stole a spicy block of queso? The owner chased after him yelling, "Hey, that's nacho cheese!" All dad jokes aside, cheese fraud is big business that negatively affects cheese producers, retailers, and consumers. Thankfully, fromage fraudsters may soon watch their profits melt away...

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Packaging Europe

Digital tracking label aids authentication of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese

The Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano (CFPR) has formed a partnership with Dutch/French consortium Kaasmerk Matec and USA-based p-Chip Corporation to launch a line of food-safe and secure traceability digital labels for its Parmigiano Reggiano cheese wheels...

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Thrillist

Parmigiano Reggiano Makers Are Using Tiny Trackers to Fight Cheese Fraud

Just because you think you're eating Parmigiano Reggiano doesn't mean that you actually are...while authentic sales total around $2.44 billion, fraudulent cheese is a $2.08 billion industry. But now, the cheese's official trade group, the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, is using new technology to fight this ongoing fraud...

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Food & Wine

Parmigiano Reggiano Makers Are Embedding Tiny Trackers in the Rind to Fight Cheese Fraud

Like many European products, true "Parmesan" cheese has a protected designation of origin, and according to the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium (the official trade group for the cheese) the amount of fraud is almost as big as product sales: Authentic Parmigiano Reggiano sales are around $2.44 billion while fraudulent cheese is a $2.08 billion market...

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KHQ Q6

Mad Minute Stories from Friday, May 13th

Most people understand (hopefully) that when they grab Kraft Parmesan Cheese, they're not getting official Parmigiano Reggiano from Italy. But less casual Parmigiano fraud is actually a serious issue for producers...

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Food Navigator

Counterfeit cheese: Digital label designed to crumble fake Parmigiano Reggiano market

A cheese mark made from casein, integrated with a silicon microchip, has been developed to help the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium guarantee the authenticity of producers' products...

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Food Engineering

Labeling’s new normal

Labels—the space where information about a brand, nutritional information, certifications, bar code, the product’s story and more is shared with consumers. With hundreds of SKUs on products, labels need to stand out. Labels can bring results with marketing and promotions...

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Dairy Reporter

Dairy Dialog podcast 176

The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium has announced a partnership with Kaasmerk Matec and p-Chip Corporation to launch a line of food-safe and secure traceability digital labels for its Parmigiano Reggiano cheese wheels....

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Perishable News

Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano, p-Chip Corporation, and Kaasmerk Matec Partner to Launch Breakthrough in Food-Safe Digital Tracking Technology

The Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano (CFPR) today announced its partnership with Kaasmerk Matec (Kaasmerk) and p-Chip Corporation (p-Chip) to launch a line of food-safe and secure traceability digital labels for its Parmigiano Reggiano cheese wheels...

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Quality Assurance & Food Safety

Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano Partners on Digital Tracking Technology

The Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano (CFPR) last week announced its partnership with Kaasmerk Matec and p-Chip Corp. to launch a line of food-safe and secure traceability digital labels for its Parmigiano Reggiano cheese wheels...

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Food Ingredients

Smarter cheesemark: Parmigiano Reggiano’s traceability boosted with microchipped casein labels

As producers of one of the world’s most historic cheeses, The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium (Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano) has teamed up with Dutch cheesemark designer Kaasmerk Matec and American developer of digital tracking tech p-Chip Corporation to add blockchain-enabled digital labels to improve the traceability of its cheese wheels...

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Dairy Reporter

New Partnership Boosts Digital Tracking technology for Parmigiano Reggiano

The Paramigiano Reggiano Consortium has announced a partnership with Kaasmerk Matec and p-Chip Corporation to launch a line of food-safe and secure traceability digital labels for its Parigiano Reggiano cheese wheels...

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Yahoo Finance

Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano, p-Chip Corporation, and Kaasmerk Matec Partner to Launch Breakthrough in Food-Safe Digital Tracking Technology

The Consorzio del Parmigiano Reggiano (CFPR) today announced its partnership with Kaasmerk Matec (Kaasmerk) and p-Chip Corporation (p-Chip) to launch a line of food-safe and secure traceability digital labels for its Parmigiano Reggiano cheese wheels. The new technology will deliver previously unseen...

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Today's Clinical Lab

Biobanking: Current State and Future Prospects

The advent of large-scale, high-throughput technologies has transformed medical research by ushering in “omic” science (e.g., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics). Information technology has evolved in parallel, leading to the curation of large electronic databases that store big data. The availability of extensive collections of well-annotated patient samples and clinical information is fundamental to the success of personalized medicine and biomarker discovery. Modern biobanks are expanding their scope and size to support innovations that will advance our understanding of health and disease....

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PR Newswire

Jeff Evanson Joins p-Chip Corp Advisory Board

P-Chip Corp, a company that is revolutionizing the tracking of physical products and materials with its breakthrough microtransponder technology, today announced that Jeff Evanson has joined the company's Advisory Board via an engagement with Traust IP Finance. Mr. Evanson, who previously served as Vice President of Global Investor Relations & Strategy at Tesla from 2011 to 2017, joins p-Chip Corp in its efforts to innovate its indexing solutions and secure additional funding....

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