29/03/2011
Like Champagne and Parma ham, more UK food producers are now being encouraged to apply for protected status. Anna Hill asks if products like Fenland celery really need it.
Forty four food products in the UK currently have protected status and 40 are awaiting approval. Across Europe over a thousand now have this protection and DEFRA is encouraging more producers in the UK to apply.
Anna Hill visits growers of Fenland celery which is one of those hoping to gain the certification; she asks if it's as specialist as champagne or parma ham and deserves the same protection.
The National Farmers Union is warning potato growers, importers and processors to guard against the Epitrix flea beetle which it says could devastate the crop if it arrives in the UK from Spain and Portugal. It claims it could damage yields by 40% and would be impossible to eliminate once here.
Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.
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