Products Archive By `PAT (Traditional Agri-Food Product)`

Traditional Italian agri-food products (PAT) are products included in a specific list, established by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (MIPAAF) with the collaboration of the Regions. MiPAAF has decided to focus clearly on niche sectors, valorising traditional products in which agricultural or livestock products were processed according to ancient recipes. The requirement to be recognized as Traditional Agri-Food Products (PAT) is to be «obtained with processing, conservation and seasoning methods consolidated over time, homogeneous for the entire territory concerned, according to traditional rules, for a period of no less than twenty-five years» . But it is the ministry itself that recognizes that these "niche products", of limited production in quantitative terms and relating to very limited territorial areas, do not justify a PDO or PGI.