Everledger and Glasgow Uni team up to fight counterfeit Scotch Whisky
About 40% of vintage whisky bottles were either fake or not produced when claimed. The University of Glasgow’s Scottish Universities Environment Research Centre, or SUERC, is joining forces with supply chain company Everledger to tackle counterfeiting within the whisky industry, according to a Dec. 18 post.The market for collectable single malt Scotch whiskies reached over £57 million ($77 million) in 2018. However, SUERC researchers estimate that up to 40% of bottles currently in circulation could be fake.Using radiocarbon dating, and unprecedented access to rare whisky samples, SUERC has....
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