EU PROTECTS PORTUGUESE AND SLOVENE MEAT PRODUCTS FROM COPIERS
November 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted legal protection to speciality Portuguese goat and sheep meat and a Slovene pork product. This prevents meat traders using their names in marketing unless these products are made in their home area by traditional production. Brussels has added to its register of protected geographical indications (PGI): Portugal's Cabrito do Alentejo goat meat (of the Serpentina breed) and sheep meat Cordeiro Mirandês/Canhono Mirandês (of the Churra Galega Mirandesa breed); and Slovenia's Kra?ka panceta traditional dried ...
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