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PGI ingredients

PGI stands for 'Protected Geographical Indication'. Under the EU agricultural product quality policy, this "covers agricultural products and foodstuffs closely linked to the geographical area. At least one of the stages of production, processing or preparation takes place in the area." The following British ingredients are those which are registered as PGI.

Name Product Region
Arbroath Smokies Smoked haddock Area around Arbroath, Angus (Scotland)
Armagh Bramley Apples Apples Armagh and Tyrone and part of Londonderry (Northern Ireland)
Cornish pasty Pasty Cornwall (England)
Cornish sardines Sardines Cornwall (England)
Traditional Cumberland Sausage Sausages Cumbria (England)
Dorset Blue Vinny Cheese Cheese Bridport, Dorchester and the Blackmore Vale, Dorset (England
Exmoor Blue Cheese Cheese West Somerset (England)
Traditional Grimsby smoked fish Smoked fish Area around Grimsby (England)
Lough Neagh Eel Fish Lough Neagh (Northern Ireland)
Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Pork pies Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire (England)
Newmarket Sausage Newmarket Sausage Newmarket and surrounding region, Suffolk (England)
New Season Comber Potato / Comber Earlies Potatoes Area around Comber (Northern Ireland)
Scotch Beef Beef Throughout Scotland
Scotch Lamb Lamb Throughout Scotland
Scottish Farmed Salmon Salmon The western coast of Scotland, the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Isles.
Teviotdale cheese Cheese The borders of England and Scotland. Out of production since 1998
Welsh Beef Beef Throughout Wales
Welsh lamb Lamb Throughout Wales
Whitstable oysters Oysters Area around Whitstable, Kent (England)