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Pingyao Beef
Cured and braised beef
At a glance
The story
A food beside the walled city
Pingyao Beef belongs to the same county whose old city became a centre of Shanxi commerce. As merchants travelled, the prepared beef moved with them, carrying a local food beyond the city walls.
Meat, salt, water and time
The traditional method is remembered through a spare set of things: a cut of beef, a knife, salt, a curing jar and a cooking pot. Selection, cutting, curing and braising produce the deep colour and tender texture associated with the name.
A county-wide protected origin
The protected area is the current administrative territory of Pingyao County. Production is governed by a national product standard, while enterprises must receive approval before using the special geographical-indication sign.
Season
- Ripening
- Not published – Not publishedOPEN
- Market window
- Not published – Not publishedOPEN
- Cultivation modes
- Year-round prepared-food productionWindow not published
Register facts
- Regime
- Protected geographical indication productPUB✓Geographical indication certification markPUB1
- Authority
- National intellectual-property authority, succeeding the former General Administration of Quality Supervision and Trademark OfficePUB✓
- Registered
- 2003-12-24PUB1
- Announced
- 2003-12-24PUB1
- Registration number
- Not publishedOPEN
- Nice class
- Not publishedOPEN
- Registrant
- Not found in public sources.OPEN
- Managing authority
- Pingyao County market-regulation administrationPUB✓
- Supporting authorities
- Jinzhong market-regulation administrationPUB✓
- Other GIs in this county
- OPEN
- Authorised use model
- Producers inside the protected area apply through the local intellectual-property administration; approved enterprises are registered by the national authority to use the special geographical-indication sign.PUB✓
- Cross-border status
- Searched; no formal cross-border geographical-indication protection was found in the reviewed public sources.PUB-NEG
Protected scope
- Basis
- AdministrativePUB✓
- Administrative scope
- The current administrative area of Pingyao County, Jinzhong, ShanxiPUB✓
- Stated production footprint
- Processing in Pingyao County using the protected production method and local groundwater specified by the product profilePUB✓
- Township and village enumeration
- Not publishedOPEN
Producers
Producers within the protected scope can be listed on this origin. None are listed yet.
Trade
No territory-representative mandate is recorded for this origin. Trade or representation enquiries may be submitted to IGSO for verification.
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