Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Box 19.3 continued
Plate 19.2
Speciality food
products in Britain:
farmhouse cheeses.
how invented this may be —can be sold as
embodying that place' (p. 155).
The European Commission has encouraged
the production of SFPs from specific regions
through Regulations 2081/92 and 2082/92.
While the latter introduced
certificates of special
character
for quality products produced with local
raw materials and/or a traditional mode of
production, the former introduced
protected
designations of origin
(PDOs)
and protected
geographical indications
(PGIs). These are European
quality marks for products from a specific region
where quality is due exclusively to a particular
geographical environment (PDO) or where a
product from a specific region possesses a specific
quality, but not necessarily due to its natural
