The EU plays a major role in enhancing high quality attributes and in sustaining this wide range of cultures and culinary traditions. The EU safeguards food quality in many ways, for example via measures to guarantee food safety and hygiene, clear labelling rules, regulations on animal and plant health and animal welfare, control of pesticide residues and additives in food and via nutritional information.
Our country manifests a low interest for Traditional Specialty Guaranteed, Protected Geographical Indications and Protected Designation of Origin illustrated by the lack of dairy products registrant for this kind of label. Although in 2007 were almost 600 local traditional dairy products listed by our Agriculture Minister.
traditional products, label, agriculture policy