Cyber-traps stop sale of 5, 000 tons of fake Parmesan
(AGI) Rho, Milan, June 15 - Thirteen cyber-traps were used toprotect the Parmigiano Reggiano brand. The operations stoppedabout 5,000 tons of counterfeit Parmesan cheese certified as"Protected Denomination of Origin" (DOP) from being soldonline. This is almost half the monthly production of genuineParmigiano cheese. The operations were the fruit of the firstweek of collaboration between the Italian Ministry forAgricultural Policies and the Alibaba online platform, after asimilar agreement signed with auction site eBay. Under theagreement Italy's almost 800 national denominations areprotected by the two online sales giants using reports by the