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Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) PGI

Горнооряховски суджук / Gornooryahovski sudzhuk

Parameters

Scheme
PGI
Country
Bulgaria
Status
Registered
Registered
22/12/2011
File number
PGI-BG-0732
Class
1.2. Meat products (cooked, salted, smoked, etc.)

eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, entry EUGI00000013948. Retrieved 2026-09-04. Register entry

Горнооряховски суджук / Gornooryahovski sudzhuk is protected across the European Union as a protected geographical indication. What that means in practice is that a document exists - the product specification - which fixes the area it may be made in, the raw material it may be made from and the method that may be used, and that a name outside those bounds may not be used on a label.

A protected geographical indication requires that at least one stage of production, processing or preparation happens in the defined area, which is a lower bar than a designation of origin.

Customs classification

16 - PREPARATIONS OF MEAT, OF FISH, OF CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS OR OTHER AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES, OR OF INSECTS

Legal instrument

Official Journal L 341, 22.12.2011

Publications

Product classes this name belongs to

What this page does not have

The register records that a specification exists and where it was published. It does not publish the specification text through its API, so this site does not reproduce salting times, ageing minimums or any other production parameter for this product. Those are in the filed document, reachable through the publications above.

Buying soudjouk

Not the protected designation

Nothing sold on Amazon carries the name Горнооряховски суджук / Gornooryahovski sudzhuk. What is linked below is soudjouk, the product class this designation is a variety of. It is not Горнооряховски суджук / Gornooryahovski sudzhuk and it is not covered by the specification filed under PGI-BG-0732. Everything above this line describes a legal claim; the product below makes no part of it.

A dry spiced sausage found from the Balkans through Turkey and the Caucasus, usually beef, usually flattened, and heavily seasoned with cumin and garlic. Transliteration is the practical problem: sujuk, soudjouk, sucuk and soutzouki are the same word.

What to read on the label. Spelled several ways. Some versions are sold to be cooked rather than eaten as they are.

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Listing

MERVE Baton Soujouk Sujuk Dried Beef Sausage 1.3lb

Lowest new, checked 2026-09-04
$29.99
Brand
Raykush Art
ASIN
B0CVLJ7MKG

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