Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) & Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG)

The full list of UK registered products is detailed below.  From 1 May 2009, ‘Protected Designation of Origin’, ‘Protected Geographical Indication’, or ‘Traditional Speciality Guaranteed’ and/or the appropriate logo associated with the designation have had to appear on the product label.

Beer

• Kentish ale (PGI)
• Kentish strong ale (PGI)
• Rutland bitter (PGI)

Bread, pastry, cakes, confectionery, biscuits and other bakers wares:

• Cornish Pasty  (PGI)

Cheeses

• Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire (PDO)
• Bonchester (PDO)
• Buxton Blue (PDO)
• Dorset Blue (PGI)
• Dovedale (PDO)
• Exmoor Blue (PGI)
• Single Gloucester (PDO)
• Staffordshire Cheese * (PDO)
• Stilton – Blue (PDO)
• Stilton – White (PDO)
• Swaledale (PDO)
• Swaledale ewes’ cheese (PDO)
• Teviotdale (PGI)
• West Country Farmhouse Cheddar (PDO)

Ciders

• Gloucestershire cider (PGI)
• Gloucestershire perry (PGI)
• Herefordshire cider (PGI)
• Herefordshire perry (PGI)
• Worcestershire cider (PGI)
• Worcestershire perry (PGI)

Cream

• Cornish Clotted Cream (PDO)

Fresh fish, molluscs and crustaceans and products derived there from

• Arbroath Smokie (PGI)
• Whitstable Oysters (PGI)
• Scottish farmed salmon * (PDF 40 KB) (PGI)
• Traditional Grimsby Smoked Fish (PDF 36 KB) (PGI)
• Cornish Sardines (PDF 40 KB)
• Lough Neagh Eels (PDF 100 KB) (PGI)

Fresh meat and offal

• Isle of Man Manx Loaghtan Lamb (PDF 85 KB)(PDO)
• Orkney beef (PDO)
• Orkney lamb (PDO)
• Scotch beef (PDF 20 KB)(PGI)
• Scotch lamb (PGI)
• Shetland lamb (PDO)
• Welsh beef (PGI)
• Welsh lamb (PDF 40 KB) (PGI)

Fruit, vegetables and cereals

• Jersey Royal Potatoes (PDO)
• Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb (PDF 60 KB) (PDO)
• New Season Comber Potatoes / Comber Earlies (PDF 50 KB) (PGI)
• Armagh Bramley Apples (PDF 50 KB) (PGI)

Meat products

• Melton Mowbray Pork Pie * (PDF 60 KB) (PGI)
• Traditional Cumberland Sausage (PDF 50 KB) (PGI)

Wine

In 2008 EU legislation came into force which provides for a system for the protection of wine names by quality or a geographical basis. The scheme highlights the quality and regional character of wines whose authenticity and origin can be guaranteed. Under this system wine registered at a European level will be given legal protection against imitation throughout the EU; therefore, providing wine producers who register their wines for protection the benefit of having a raised awareness of their wine throughout Europe and the rest of the World.

• English Wine (PDF 160KB) (PDO)
• English Regional Wine (PDF 120KB) (PGI)
• Welsh Wine (PDF 170KB) (PDO)
• Welsh Regional Wine (PDF 120KB) (PGI)

Wool

• Native Shetland Wool (PDF 50 KB) (PDO)

Traditional Speciality Guaranteed

Fresh meat and offal

• Traditional Farm fresh Turkey * (TSG)
• Traditionally Farmed Gloucestershire Old Spots Pork (PDF 50 KB)

* This product specification had applied for an amendment, details can be found on the current applications page.