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What if the inauthentic product is made by my mate dodgy Dave who got a load of cheap milk and some dirty old metalwork, it's ok he flushed a load of industrial cleaner through them and it's good stuff they use it to clean engines at his brother's garage...
You'd be far better off not buying a prestige product and getting a good quality cheese from a reputable manufacturer at a price that doesn't include a huge markup due to perceived historic significance
As long as Dodgy Dave passed his mandatory FDA inspections I'd eat his cheese.
You think the big brands don't use industrial cleaner? LOL
But the point is if the labels are fake you don't know if they got inspected, it's organized crime gangs running it and they're not really known for being sticklers for the law...
The cleaning products and procedures are heavily regulated in food production because when they're not people cut corners and use cheaper things without regard for long-term health effects
Now you're worried about counterfeit Dodgy Dave cheese? Where are you buying your cheese‽
There was a HUGE scandal in the UK over rotten horse meat getting mixed into basically everything. This was part of the whole Ikea horse meat story from years ago.
It's a supply chain issue, criminal gangs fake paperwork and all that stuff hence the cheese people going for more extreme security measures - you could be eating Dave's cheese in an expensive restaurant, as far as they know it's ligit but the importer or supplier duped them
I mean I was being a little jocular in my comment (since this tracker is on the outside) it doesn’t really matter.
But by preferring “inauthentic” I was thinking something like “Greek style cheese” which is just feta but made outside of Greece or sparking wine for champagne. So food standards still apply.
But yeah, they are trying to stop fraudulent claims.