Fermented sausage
Soppressata
A pressed fermented sausage. Implicated, with prosciutto and capocollo, in the 2010 Salmonella Montevideo outbreak traced to contaminated pepper, which FSIS tabulates in its outbreak history.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
- 2
- US standards of identity
- 0
- Composition rows
- 0
- Named by FSIS
- no
- Buying guide
- yes
This page exists because these joins exist. A class name that joins to no register entry, no standard, no composition row and no buying guide would not have a page.
US standard of identity
No section of 9 CFR part 319 defines this product. That is worth knowing: it means the name carries no compositional guarantee in the United States, and two products sold under it may have been made quite differently.
Protected names in this class
Buying it
A pressed dry salami, and a word that covers genuinely different products: the Calabrian version is a protected designation of origin made from specific cuts, while soppressata in the United States is a style name applied at the maker's discretion. Both are fermented and dried; only one of them is a definition.
What to read on the label. Soppressata di Calabria is a legal claim. Soppressata on its own is a shape and a tradition.
Worth repeating in a buying context: no section of 9 CFR part 319 defines this product, so in the United States the word on the front of the pack is a marketing term. The compositional statements that are regulated are the ones on the back, in the ingredient list and the nutrition panel.
This one carries a protected name. The listing below puts Finocchiona in its own title, which is a designation claim rather than a style description. Where this site can find a product carrying a registered name it links that in preference to a generic one, because the page above has just explained why the two are not the same thing.
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Listing
Italian Salami 3 Pack, Calabrese, Soppressata & Finocchiona (5 Ounce Each)
- Lowest new, checked 2026-09-04
- $34.99
- Brand
- crait
- ASIN
- B0H7CFH12C
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Register data: eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, retrieved 2026-09-04. Composition: USDA FoodData Central, retrieved 2026-09-04, All values are per 100 g of the food as described.