 The logo of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association The Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association is a group of pork pie manufacturers in the Melton Mowbray area of England, UK. The association was set up with the purported aim of helping to protect the Melton Mowbray pork pie recipe which it perceives as being unique to the Melton Mowbray area. A logotype (from the Greek λογότυπο), commonly known as a logo, is the graphic element, symbol, and icon of a trademark or brand, which is set in a special typeface or arranged in a particular way. ...
Pork pie is a traditional British food. ...
Melton Mowbray or just Melton (as it is commonly known to its inhabitants) is a town of around 26,000 people in the borough of Melton north-east Leicestershire, England, 15 miles from Leicester and 105 miles north of London. ...
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In 1999 the association, a group of seven local manufacturers, applied to the E.U to have their products categorised as protected. Northern Foods, a large food corporation recently tried to prevent the EU Protected designation of origin controls over the usage of "Melton Mowbray" on the wrappings of its own pork pies. The MMPPO's Protected Geographical Indication Application is being made through DEFRA. The name Melton Mowbray would only be applied to pork pies made within a 1,800 sq miles (2,880 sq km) zone around the town and with only uncured pork-filled pies given the Melton Mowbray name. This move against the new requirements was dismissed by the High Court. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
The European Union (EU) is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 democratic member states from the European continent. ...
Northern Foods plc is a British food manufacturer headquartered in Hull in the north of England. ...
Protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI) and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) are geographical indications defined in European Union Law to protect regional foods. ...
Protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI) and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) are geographical indications defined in European Union Law to protect regional foods. ...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities. ...
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Northern Foods views the situation as unfair and state in press releases that the MMPPA's dominant member Samworth Brothers, has made cured and uncured pork pies in Leicester and that the designation area is shaped to include the Samworth factory there. According to Northern Foods, 99% of the pork pies made under the association banner are made by Samworth Brothers. [1]. Northern Foods is to take the matter to the European Court of Justice [2]. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is formally known as the Court of Justice of the European Communities, i. ...
See also Protected designation of origin (PDO), protected geographical indication (PGI) and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) are geographical indications defined in European Union Law to protect regional foods. ...
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. ...
External links - Samworth Brothers' Melton Mowbray Pork Pie Association webpage
- Northern Foods' reporting of the case
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