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Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) PDO

Prosciutto di Parma

Customs classification

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

Legal instrument

Official Journal L 148, 21.06.1996

Publications

Recognised producer group

Product classes this name belongs to

• ProsciuttoDry-cured whole muscle

Buying this protected name

Everything above is a statement about a document. Prosciutto di Parma means the specification filed under PDO-IT-0067 was followed, in the area that specification defines, and that a control body signed it off. A jar of the same word made somewhere else is not a worse version of this product; under EU law it is not this product at all.

That is why the listing below had to carry the protected name in its own title before it could appear here. This site runs one search per registered name and attaches nothing unless the seller makes the claim themselves. There is no substitute, no closest match and no generic stand-in, because the whole subject of this page is that the words are not interchangeable. Look for the protected name and the EU designation mark, not for the word prosciutto, which any dry ham may use.

What the seller is claiming. This listing puts the protected name Prosciutto di Parma in its own title, so the seller is making the designation claim rather than describing a style. Whether the product in the box carries the consortium mark is a question about that box, and the mark on the packaging is what answers it.