Food Standards Agency
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What is RSS?Under food hygiene legislation that came into effect on 1 January 2006, meat plants require approval unless they benefit from specific exemptions.
Slaughterhouses, cutting plants and game handling establishments require veterinary control and must be approved by the FSA.
Any co-located cold stores, minced meat, meat preparation or meat products establishments are also approved by the FSA (when stand-alone, these establishments are approved by the local authority).
In this section you will find lists of meat establishments that are approved to slaughter and/or cut meat.
On 7 November 2005, the Over Thirty Months (OTM) Rule, a BSE control that banned OTM cattle from entering the food chain, was replaced by BSE testing of older cattle. Cattle older than thirty months can now enter the food chain if they test negative for BSE.
Butchers' shop licensing is being withdrawn across the UK from the end of 2005. From 1 January 2006, all retail butchers will be subject to the new EC hygiene regulations that apply to all other retail and catering businesses.
Lists of approved premises only for meat products and for minced meat and meat preparations are published here in Excel format and updated monthly.
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