About GB 2822
Beech Ridge Farm Limited is based in Wellington (TA21), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cold storage, cutting meat, slaughtering animals and re-wrapping and repacking, for poultry.
Is meat from GB 2822 halal?
The code shows which plant slaughtered, cut 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 cold store keeps chilled or frozen products. It does not cut, prepare or slaughter, so its approval says nothing about how the meat was produced.
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 slaughterhouse approval means animals are killed and dressed here. This is the step where halal is decided: how the animal is slaughtered, whether it is stunned first, who performs the slaughter and which certifier monitors it.
What to ask before you rely on it
- Are halal-certified products stored separately and labelled?
- 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 slaughter here halal certified, and by which body?
- Are animals stunned before slaughter, and does your certifier accept that?
- Are halal and non-halal animals kept apart?
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 TA postcode area has 7 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 4 of them slaughterhouses and 7 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Meat plants elsewhere in the TA postcode area
- GB 2682 · Somerset
- GB 2828 · Taunton
- GB 8181 · Taunton
- GB 8191 · Chard
- GB 8231 · Taunton
- GB 8285 · Langport