Three European Union schemes, operating alongside individual national schemes, known as protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI), and traditional specialities guaranteed (TSG), protect names of quality agricultural products and foodstuffs. EU Regulation No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org..protected_status
Examples include... Protected Designation of Origin (PDO)
Lakeland Herdwick
Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese
Buxton Blue
Dovedale cheese
Single Gloucester
Staffordshire cheese
Stilton — white cheese/Stilton — blue cheese
Swaledale cheese
Swaledale Ewes cheese
West Country farmhouse Cheddar cheese
Cornish clotted cream
Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb
East Kent goldings
English wine
Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)
West Country lamb
West Country beef
Melton Mowbray pork pie
Newmarket sausage
Traditional Cumberland sausage
Dorset Blue cheese
Yorkshire Wensleydale
Fenland celery
Cornish sardines
Scottish farmed salmon
Scottish wild salmon
Traditional Grimsby smoked fish
Whitstable oysters
Gloucestershire cider/perry
Herefordshire cider/perry
Worcestershire cider/perry
Kentish ale and Kentish strong ale
Rutland bitter
Cornish pasty
Plymouth gin
Somerset cider brandy
Newcastle Brown Ale (Rescinded)
Traditionally farmed Gloucestershire Old Spots pork
