About GB 2655
Randall Parker Foodservice is based in Nelson (BB9), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for processing meat products, cutting meat, making mince, making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat, cold storage and re-wrapping and repacking.
Is meat from GB 2655 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 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.
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 mince approval means the plant makes minced meat. Mince is made from trimmings, so one batch can combine meat from several carcasses and suppliers.
What to ask before you rely on it
- Is the finished product certified, not just the raw meat?
- Do the recipes contain gelatine, alcohol or other doubtful ingredients?
- 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 raw meat halal certified at source?
- Is halal mince made separately from non-halal mince?
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 BB postcode area has 14 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 3 of them slaughterhouses and 14 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Nelson
Meat plants elsewhere in the BB postcode area
- GB 2289 · Blackburn
- GB 2660 · Burnley
- GB 2683 · Accrington
- GB 2705 · Whalley
- GB 2727 · Accrington
- GB 2756 · Blackburn
- GB 2801 · Colne
- GB 4471 · Colne