Protected designation of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indication (PGI) and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) are geographical indications defined in European Union Law to protect regional foods. The legislation came into force in 1992. Britain has a relatively short list of these, partly because of the industrialisation of agriculture.

List of Foods

Beer

• Newcastle Brown Ale (Protected Geographical Indication (PGI))
• Kentish ale (PGI)
• Kentish strong ale (PGI)
• Rutland bitter (PGI)

Cheese

• Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese (PDO)
• Bonchester cheese (PDO)
• Buxton blue (PDO)
• Dorset Blue cheese (PGI)
• Dovedale cheese (PDO)
• Exmoor Blue cheese (PGI)
• Single Gloucester (PDO)
• Swaledale cheese (PDO)
• Swaledale ewes' cheese (PDO)
• Teviotdale cheese (PGI)
• Stilton - White cheese (PDO)
• Stilton - Blue cheese (PDO)
• West Country farmhouse Cheddar cheese (see Cheddar cheese) (PDO)

Cider and Perry

• Gloucestershire cider (PGI)
• Gloucestershire perry (PGI)
• Herefordshire cider (PGI)
• Herefordshire perry (PGI)
• Worcestershire cider (PGI)
• Worcestershire perry (PGI)

Cream

• Cornish Clotted Cream (PDO)

Fish

• Whitstable Oysters (PGI)

Meat

• Orkney beef (PDO)
• Orkney lamb (PDO)
• Scotch beef (PGI)
• Scotch lamb (PGI)
• Shetland lamb (PDO)
• Welsh Beef (PGI)

Vegetables

• Jersey Royal potatoes (PDO)

Applications

• Wensleydale cheese has applied for PDO

References

• Official list of British protected foods
• Traditional Foods of Britain: A Regional Inventory. Euroterroirs, Laura Mason, Catherine Brown. ISBN 1903018-35-8.