About GB 2838
Hetton Management Services is based in Alnwick (NE66), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat, cutting meat, cold storage, handling wild game, re-wrapping and repacking and making mince, for wild birds, wild rabbits and hares and deer and wild game.
Is meat from GB 2838 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 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.
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 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.
What to ask before you rely on it
- Are all added ingredients halal, including casings and flavourings?
- Is the meat halal certified, and does the certificate cover this product?
- 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?
- Are halal-certified products stored separately and labelled?
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 NE postcode area has 7 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 1 of them slaughterhouses and 7 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Meat plants elsewhere in the NE postcode area
- GB 2056 · Cramlington
- GB 2370 · Newcastle Upon Tyne
- GB 2475 · Gateshead
- GB 2484 · Newcastle-upon-tyne
- GB 2840 · Milfield
- GB 2880 · Seahouses