BRUSSELS PROTECTS TRADITIONAL CROATIAN, FRENCH AND SPANISH POULTRY FROM ILLICIT COPIES

THE EUROPEAN Commission has protected four more meat traditional products - from Croatia, France, and Spain - by adding them to the European Union’s (EU) list of protected ‘geographical indications.’ This system prevents their sale under registered names across the EU, unless the products are made in their traditional home region and by established production methods laid down in the EU register. One of the new protected meat products is ‘Zagorski puran,’ a turkey slaughtered at six to eight months of age from the Croatian Zagorje breed reared using ...


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