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France’s truffle farmers aim to stop inferior Chinese fungi getting a sniff

December 25, 2019February 11, 2014 by Editorial Team

Scientists use their noses to help distinguish between highly prized black truffles and cheap Chinese imports

Categories Business, Cigars & Spirits, Gourmet Tags Article, Asia Pacific, Black Diamond, black Périgord truffle, black truffle, business, China, Chinese fungi, Chinese imitations, Chinese truffle imitations, Chinese truffles, Christian Ginies, Europe, European truffle., fake truffles, federation of trufficulteurs, Food & drink, Food & drink industry, Food science, France, French fungus, French trufficulteurs, French truffles, head of the INRA, International, Jean-François Tourrette, Kim Willsher, Life and style, Main section, National Institute of Agronomic Research, news, Perigord, Perigord Truffle, Science, Sichuan, Sichuan truffle, the smell of the truffles, trufficulteurs in Provence, truffle cultivators, truffle from China, truffle season, truffles, tuber indicum, Tuber melanosporum, World news

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