About GB 2470
Ox Close Fine Foods is based in Wetherby (LS22), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for re-wrapping and repacking, handling wild game, making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat, processing meat products and cutting meat, for wild birds, wild rabbits and hares and deer and wild game.
Is meat from GB 2470 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 re-wrapping approval means the plant unwraps and packs meat again without preparing it. A pack can carry this plant's code while the meat was slaughtered and cut elsewhere, so the supplier before the repack matters.
A game handling approval covers wild game such as deer, wild birds and rabbits. Hunted animals are not slaughtered in the way farm animals are, so scholars apply different rules to them. Ask a scholar you trust before relying on a pack.
A meat preparation approval covers fresh meat with something added, such as sausages, burgers, kebabs and marinated meat. The added ingredients (marinades, casings, seasonings and flavourings) can bring in pork, alcohol or animal-derived additives, even when the meat itself is halal.
What to ask before you rely on it
- Who supplied the meat before it was repacked?
- Does the halal certificate cover the repacking step?
- How were the animals killed, and is that accepted by a scholar you follow?
- Are all added ingredients halal, including casings and flavourings?
- Is the meat halal certified, and does the certificate cover this product?
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 LS postcode area has 6 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 1 of them slaughterhouses and 6 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.