If this happens, it's not within the rules, that's straight up fraud. PDOs like Parmesan require all production and processing to happen within the registered

If this happens, it's not within the rules, that's straight up fraud. PDOs like Parmesan require all production and processing to happen within the registered area, and usually following some quite strict rules, depending on the name in question. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_designation_of_origin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_designation_of_ori... has some interesting details.