HOLSTEIN HAM GETS EU PROTECTION
February 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has granted legal protection to a ham from the northern German state Schleswig-Holstein, preventing meat traders selling 'Holsteiner Katenschinken' unless made in its home area by traditional production. Brussels has added the ham to its register of protected designations of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indications (PGI). Holsteiner Katenschinken is round-cut, salted by hand and slowly cold-smoked over beech wood. "The entire production process, from the delivery of the meat to the maturing of the whole ...
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