Approved red, poultry, and game meat establishments

Friday 19 March 2010

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

When co-located with an approved slaughterhouse, cutting plant or Game Handling establishment, the following associated activities are also approved by the MHS (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 MHS.

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 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 17/02/2010)

Meat from poultry and lagomorphs (Updated 17/02/2010)

Meat of farmed game (Updated 17/02/2010)

Wild game meat (Updated 17/02/2010)

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

England, Scotland and Wales
Approvals Admin Team
Room 112 Foss House
Kings Pool
Peasholme Green
York YO1 7PR
tel: 01904 456182; Fax: 01904 455420
email: approvals@mhs.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 of domestic ungulates (Updated 17/02/2010)

Meat from poultry and lagomorphs (Updated 17/02/2010)

Meat of farmed game (Updated 17/02/2010)

Wild game meat (Updated 17/02/2010)

New food hygiene legislation: 1 January 2006

Further information

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