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Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) PGI
Pancetta de l'Ile de Beauté / Panzetta de l'Ile de Beauté
Parameters
- Scheme
- PGI
- Country
- France
- Status
- Registered
- Registered
- 27/07/2023
- File number
- PGI-FR-02427
- Class
- 1.2. Meat products (cooked, salted, smoked, etc.)
eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, entry EUGI00000016636. Retrieved 2026-09-04. Register entry
Pancetta de l'Ile de Beauté / Panzetta de l'Ile de Beauté 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 188, 27.7.2023
Publications
| Reference | Date |
|---|---|
| Official Journal C 417, 14.10.2021 | 2021-10-14 |
| Official Journal L 188, 27.7.2023 | 2023-07-27 |
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 pancetta
Not the protected designation
Nothing sold on Amazon carries the name Pancetta de l'Ile de Beauté / Panzetta de l'Ile de Beauté. What is linked below is pancetta, the product class this designation is a variety of. It is not Pancetta de l'Ile de Beauté / Panzetta de l'Ile de Beauté and it is not covered by the specification filed under PGI-FR-02427. Everything above this line describes a legal claim; the product below makes no part of it.
Cured pork belly, rolled or flat. Pancetta Piacentina and Pancetta di Calabria are protected; the general word is not. The distinction that matters commercially is between a pancetta dried to be sliced and eaten and one cured to be cooked, which the same word covers.
What to read on the label. Rolled or flat, and ready to eat or for cooking. Those two facts are what change how it is used, and both should be on the label.
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Listing
- Lowest new, checked 2026-09-04
- $129.95
- Brand
- MARTELLI DAL 1959
- ASIN
- B0DFWRS5YC
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