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Approved red, poultry, and game meat establishments

Monday 2 April 2012

In this section you will find lists of meat establishments that are approved to slaughter and/or cut meat.

These are as follows:

• domestic ungulates: cattle, calves, sheep, goats, pigs, bison and water buffalo
• poultry: farmed birds (chicken, turkey, duck, geese, guinea fowl, quail)
• lagomorphs: rabbits, hares and rodents
• farmed game: farmed deer, farmed boar and ratites (flightless birds: e.g. ostrich, rhea, emu)
• wild game (includes wild birds, wild lagomorphs, wild ungulates and wild land mammals)

The meat establishments listed below are subject to Regulations (EC) 852/2004 and (EC) 853/2004 and must be approved by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), in order to operate, unless they meet the exemption criteria in Regulation (EC) 853/2004:

• Slaughterhouses
• Farm slaughter facilities
• Game Handling establishments
• Cutting plants

These establishments are subject to official controls enforced and executed by the FSA.

When co-located with an approved slaughterhouse, cutting plant or Game Handling establishment, the following associated activities are also approved by the FSA (when stand-alone, they are approved by the local authority):

• Minced meat, meat preparations and mechanically separated meat establishments
• Processing plants (meat products, rendered animal fats and greaves, treated stomach, bladders, intestines, gelatine, collagen)
• Cold stores
• Re-wrapping establishments

List of meat establishments in the UK

These meat establishments are operating under Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 and Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 and are either conditionally approved or approved.

Please note that:

• the former Farmed Game Handling Facilities are now known as On Farm Slaughter Facilities
• the former Farmed Game Processing Facilities are now known as Slaughterhouses the activities of which are limited to the dressing of carcasses
• the former Wild Game Processing Facilities are now known as Game Handling Establishments
• the coldstores and re-wrapping centres listed are on the same site as a slaughterhouse, cutting plant or game handling establishment.

The list of establishments is updated monthly, in Microsoft Excel format:

Meat of domestic ungulates (Updated April 2012)