date:Aug 29, 2014
Swiss cheesemakers weapon against forgeries is housed at minus 80 degrees Celsius in a Bern freezer. Its here where scientists keep 10,000 strains of milk bacteria to guard against copycats.
The countrys cheese industry, worth 604 million Swiss francs in exports last year, has turned to DNA fingerprinting to fight counterfeits, which Emmental producers estimate have cost them as much as 20 million francs.
Forgeries are contributing to declining revenue for an industry thats already beleaguered