page_title: List of United Kingdom food and drink products with protected status
hierarchical_section_title: List of United Kingdom food and drink products with protected status
caption_attribution_description: English: Dish of Jersey Royal potatoes - uncooked Ελληνικά: Εδώδιμοι κόνδυλοι πατάτας της ποικιλίας Jersey Royal
context_page_description: A number of United Kingdom food and drink products have been granted protected geographical status under United Kingdom law and European Union law. Protection of geographical indications is granted to names that indicate geographical origin both inside and outside the United Kingdom and the European Union. A number of geographical indications for food and drink products originating in the Crown dependencies, which are not part of the UK or the EU, are also protected under UK and EU law. These are also listed in this article.
  The stated purpose of the quality schemes is to protect the reputation of regional products, promote traditional and agricultural activity and to eliminate non-genuine products, which may mislead consumers or be of inferior or different character; for example, producers cannot refer to their product as Scotch whisky unless it has been produced within Scotland, following particular methods. The quality schemes include two types of geographical indicators: "protected designation of origin" and "protected geographical indication". These two types of designations are available for food, agricultural products and wines.
context_section_description: A number of United Kingdom food and drink products have been granted protected geographical status under United Kingdom law and European Union law. Protection of geographical indications is granted to names that indicate geographical origin both inside and outside the United Kingdom and the European Union. A number of geographical indications for food and drink products originating in the Crown dependencies, which are not part of the UK or the EU, are also protected under UK and EU law. These are also listed in this article.
  The stated purpose of the quality schemes is to protect the reputation of regional products, promote traditional and agricultural activity and to eliminate non-genuine products, which may mislead consumers or be of inferior or different character; for example, producers cannot refer to their product as Scotch whisky unless it has been produced within Scotland, following particular methods. The quality schemes include two types of geographical indicators: "protected designation of origin" (PDO) (which are appellations of origin) and "protected geographical indication" (PGI) (which are geographical indications). These two types of designations are available for food, agricultural products and wines. For spirit drinks and aromatised wine, the equivalent designation to a PGI is called a "geographical indication" (GI). In addition, the quality schemes also include "traditional specialities guaranteed" (TSG), which are designed to promote and protect names of quality agricultural products and foodstuffs without requiring any reference to geographical origin.
  The United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies together have a total of 65 products with protected status. This is relatively few when compared with Portugal (125 protected status products), France (217) and Italy (267). However, the UK and Crown dependencies have considerably more designations than many other countries, including Ireland (5), Sweden (6), Turkey (15), Austria (14), or (for example) the United States, Japan or Korea (none). Most of the products hold either PGI (38) or PDO (25) status, with only two products being designated as TSG.
  This list, excepting "spirit drinks", is compiled according to the Database of Origin and Registration and E-Bacchus, European Commission databases of all registered products, as well as all products which were formerly registered or for which registration has been applied. The majority of products that hold protected status are foodstuffs fit for human consumption, including cheeses (15), fresh meat and offal (13),  meat products (4), fish and molluscs (10), fruit and vegetables (6), wines (4) and spirit drinks (3). While other agricultural products can be included, native Shetland wool is the only non-edible UK product name to hold protected status in the UK and the EU.
caption: Jersey Royal potatoes were one of the first product names indicating the UK or the Crown dependencies to receive protected status, having been awarded the PDO designation in 1996[1]
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