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Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) PDO
Salame di Varzi
Parameters
- Scheme
- PDO
- Country
- Italy
- Status
- Registered
- Registered
- 21/06/1996
- File number
- PDO-IT-0208
- Class
- 1.2. Meat products (cooked, salted, smoked, etc.)
eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, entry EUGI00000013218. Retrieved 2026-09-04. Register entry
Salame di Varzi 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 148, 21.06.1996
Publications
| Reference | Date |
|---|---|
| Official Journal L 148, 21.06.1996 | 1996-06-21 |
| Official Journal C, C/2025/3433, 19.6.2025 | 2025-06-19 |
Recognised producer group
Producer group
- Name
- Consorzio di Tutela del Salame di Varzi
- Address
- P.zza Umberto I, 1 27057 - VARZI (PV)
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 salami
Not the protected designation
Nothing sold on Amazon carries the name Salame di Varzi. What is linked below is salami, the product class this designation is a variety of. It is not Salame di Varzi and it is not covered by the specification filed under PDO-IT-0208. Everything above this line describes a legal claim; the product below makes no part of it.
The general word for a fermented dried sausage, and the class where the gap between the European register and US law is widest. The register carries dozens of protected salami names, each with a filed specification. In the United States, salami reaching a moisture-protein ratio of 1.9 to 1 or less is a labelling threshold rather than a definition of the product.
What to read on the label. A protected name constrains the recipe and the place. Dry or hard salami in the United States is a statement about moisture, not about method.
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Listing
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- $15.00
- Brand
- crait
- ASIN
- B0H3CKDF81
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