They are skewering the hams with one of the tools of their trade, a horse bone, clean and scentless to check for quality. no defects. this may seem like the best job in the world, but it's also deadly serious. dna tests are now mandatory to check the pedigree of these pigs because of widespread corruption. back in 2017, a criminal racket was exposed hustling fake prosciutto di parma. a huge operation by the fraud squad involving phone tapping and undercover surveillance resulted in the ringleaders being jailed and over a million fake hams confiscated. the industry is still reeling from the sca...