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Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) PDO
Pancetta di Calabria
Parameters
- Scheme
- PDO
- Country
- Italy
- Status
- Registered
- Registered
- 21/01/1998
- File number
- PDO-IT-1567
- Class
- 1.2. Meat products (cooked, salted, smoked, etc.)
eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, entry EUGI00000013345. Retrieved 2026-09-04. Register entry
Pancetta di Calabria is protected across the European Union as a protected designation of origin. 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 designation of origin is the stricter of the two schemes. Every stage of production has to happen in the defined area.
Customs classification
16 - PREPARATIONS OF MEAT, OF FISH, OF CRUSTACEANS, MOLLUSCS OR OTHER AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES, OR OF INSECTS
Legal instrument
Official Journal L 15, 21.01.1998
Publications
| Reference | Date |
|---|---|
| Official Journal L 15, 21.01.1998 | 1998-01-21 |
| Official Journal C 78, 06.03.2015 | 2015-03-06 |
| Official Journal L 198, 28.07.2015 | 2015-07-28 |
Recognised producer group
Producer group
- Name
- Consorzio di Tutela Salumi di Calabria DOP
- Address
- Via Galliano n. 4/D, 87050 - Cosenza (CS)
As recorded in the register. The producer group is the body that filed and maintains the product specification. Its contact address is published in the register entry rather than reproduced here.
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 di Calabria. What is linked below is pancetta, the product class this designation is a variety of. It is not Pancetta di Calabria and it is not covered by the specification filed under PDO-IT-1567. 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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