Faux fromage and other phoney food
Food authentication helps ensure that our cheese, olive oil and other foods are the real deal, and that they don’t contain unwanted adulterants.
Starting with a faux fromage overview about recent parmesan cheese adulteration cases in the US, this short clip (https://youtu.be/V_JIjJJ8Zq0) released by the American Chemical Society looks at the science of spotting fake foods. It’s worth a look.
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