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[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How is a microchip edible? Big as a sand grain? How does it work? How long has this tech existed? How many microchips have I eaten? Do they stop working if I eat them?

[–] SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

It's not edible. The chip is in the packaging. Chipping packaging is normal and the headline is funny but sensational

Now producers have been trialling the most modern of authentication methods – microtransponders about the size of a grain of salt inserted into the labels found on the rind of 120,000 wheels of parmigiano reggiano.

Edit or it might as well be edible no one knows since no ones eaten cheese with the packaging

[–] 15Redstones@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

That's not in the packaging, it's in the rind of the cheese itself. The labels are also written on the cheese itself.

[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm willing to bet some people on this planet have eaten the packaging at least once.

[–] Auzymundius@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

into the labels found on the rind

The labels are directly on the rind of the cheese - not on a sticker or something.

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Still in the rind. Chances of eating it unless you specifically want to eat it are nill

[–] teft@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lots of people throw the rind in stews and sauces. It adds umami. So now I gotta fish out the bay leaf and a microchip.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Mmm... lead soldering flavor

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 11 months ago

its probably a rfid like thing made with metals that will just pass through you

[–] brianorca@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

If a tiny chip is embedded in glass or a similar biologically inert coating, and it's still small enough to pass your intestines without noticing, then it's edible. RFID can be very small, has no internal power, and only responds to a nearby request ping, which also gives it a few milliseconds of power.