2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
There are three types of products with a special regulatory regime by the European Commission. These are the protected names of foods according to their origin, products authorized for production only in certain territories and foods of a traditionally specific nature.
With this legal framework, European legislation seeks to ensure that only products of genuine origin in a specific area can be offered to consumers and that customers are not deceived by unfair traders.
Bulgaria, which has been a member of the European Union since 2007, has three protected products with a traditionally specific character. With the idea of encouraging local production, the European Commission has placed special protection on the Bulgarian fillet Elena, the Pangyur sausage and the Gornooryahovsky sausage.
The three types of sausages are allowed to be prepared according to a specific recipe and to have a strictly defined shape. Thus, the Elena fillet should be made only of pork, as well as have an oval cylindrical shape. The product is allowed to be prepared on the territory of the whole Bulgaria, but nowhere else in Europe.
The sausage from Panagyurishte is also allowed to be produced only in the country, but it is obligatory to bear its name determined by the European Commission. It must be freshly raw-dried. Only beef or buffalo meat should be used in its preparation. Its shell must be of animal gut and its diameter must be 50 millimeters. This type of sausage, in order to bear its name and be able to be sold freely, must also be covered with a white noble mold formed during drying.
Gornooryahovsky sausage is prepared only from beef. It must have its traditional horseshoe shape. The spices are only natural and no impurities containing E are added. The ripening period should be exactly 20 days.
Other Bulgarian products waiting to be included in the European Commission's list of protected products are rose oil, common sausage, Kaiser's neck Trakia and the Trapezitsa roll.
The protected list includes more than 1,200 products from all countries of the old continent, as well as several from South America, the United States and Australia.
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