About GB 2382
Walkers Midshire Foods (Ham) is based in Leicester (LE1), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cutting meat and processing meat products.
Is meat from GB 2382 halal?
The code shows which plant cut, prepared or packed the meat, not whether it is halal. Look for a halal logo from a named certifier, such as HMC or HFA, or ask the brand which certifier approves the product. More in halal meat codes.
What this approval means for halal
A cutting plant cuts carcasses into joints and portions. It does not slaughter animals, so the meat arrives from a slaughterhouse and the halal question moves upstream: where the meat came from, and whether halal meat is kept apart from non-halal meat while it is cut.
A processing plant handles processed products of animal origin, which includes cooked, cured and ready-to-eat meat products. Recipes can include gelatine, alcohol-based flavourings or other additives that the meat's own certificate does not cover.
What to ask before you rely on it
- Which slaughterhouses supply this plant, and are they halal certified?
- Is halal meat cut on separate lines or at separate times from non-halal meat?
- Is the finished product certified, not just the raw meat?
- Do the recipes contain gelatine, alcohol or other doubtful ingredients?
Ask the brand on the pack, or the halal certifier named on it. Plants rarely publish this, so a written answer from the brand is the best evidence.
Meat plants in the area
The LE postcode area has 15 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 5 of them slaughterhouses and 12 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Leicester
- GB 2698 · Al Barakah Meats Ltd
- GB 2863 · Glenn Lewin Butchers Limited
- GB 2886 · Halal Editions
- GB 4068 · Westlands Poultry
- GB 4674 · Superchick Poultry Ltd
- GB 4782 · Parker Fine Foods
- GB 4827 · Walkers Midshire Foods (Sausage)
Meat plants elsewhere in the LE postcode area
- GB 2077 · Melton Mowbray
- GB 2248 · Melton Mowbray
- GB 2586 · Loughborough
- GB 2816 · North Wilworth
- GB 4126 · Market Harborough
- GB 4327 · Lutterworth
- GB 4333 · Loughborough