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Approved red, poultry, and game meat establishments

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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, 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 Meat Hygiene Serivce (MHS). The MHS is an executive Agency of the Food Standards Agency.

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

Article 4.5 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 entitles establishments which were operating under the cover of a licence under the Meat Hygiene Regulations on 31 December 2005 to continue operating under the new Regulations until they are assessed for approval by the FSA.

List of meat establishments in the UK

These are either:

operating under the terms of Article 4.5 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004; or
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 cold stores 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 establishments in England (Updated 29/05/2009)

Meat establishments in Wales (Updated 29/05/2009)

Meat establishments in Scotland (Updated 29/05/2009)

Meat establishments in Northern Ireland (Updated 29/05/2009)

For further information about approved meat establishments across the UK please contact:

England
Ms Angela Bull, Food Standards Agency
Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2B 6NH
Tel: 020 7276 8366
Email: angela.bull@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

Scotland
Karen Robertson, Food Standards Agency Scotland
6th Floor, St Magnus House,
25 Guild Street, Aberdeen AB11 6NJ
Tel: 01224 285144; Fax: 01224 285168
Email: karen.robertson@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

Wales
Ms Vicki Reilly, Food Standards Agency Wales
11th Floor, Southgate House, Wood Street, Cardiff CF10 1EW
Tel: 029-2067 8952; Fax: 029-2067 8918
Email: vicki.reilly@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

Northern Ireland
Ms Karen Flanigan, FSA Northern Ireland,
10A-C Clarendon Road, Belfast BT1 3BG
Tel: 02890 417722 fax: 02890 417728
Email: karen.flanigan@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

New food hygiene legislation: 1 January 2006

For further details about these Regulations, please consult the 'Guide to food hygiene and other regulations for the meat industry', attached below.

Further information

Further information on Approved Establishments for other Member and EEA States is available from the EUROPA website at the link below.

External links The Food Standards Agency has no responsibility for the content of external websites

(External) Approved establishments for other Member and EEA States EUROPA website

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Approved red, poultry, and game meat establishments

Meat establishments in England (Updated 29/05/2009)

Meat establishments in Wales (Updated 29/05/2009)

Meat establishments in Scotland (Updated 29/05/2009)

Meat establishments in Northern Ireland (Updated 29/05/2009)

New food hygiene legislation: 1 January 2006

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