About GB 2885
Golden Meat & Poultry Ltd is based in Derby (DE24), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat, cold storage and cutting meat.
Is meat from GB 2885 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 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.
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?
- 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?
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 DE postcode area has 17 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 5 of them slaughterhouses and 15 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Derby
- GB 2654 · Cootehill Poultry Products Limited
- GB 2710 · S.Khan Poultry Ltd
- GB 2810 · Bernard Matthews Foods (Derby) Limited
- GB 4265 · Fairfax Meadow Europe Limited
- GB 4792 · TMC (Midlands) Limited
- GB 4858 · McTurk Catering Supplies Limited
Meat plants elsewhere in the DE postcode area
- GB 2518 · Burton on Trent
- GB 2763 · Hartshorne
- GB 2972 · Heanor
- GB 4026 · Scropton
- GB 4241 · Alvaston
- GB 4242 · Burton-on-Trent
- GB 4313 · Alfreton
- GB 4319 · Matlock