About GB 2943
Midlands Halal Distribution Ltd is based in Birmingham (B74SH), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for making mince, cold storage and cutting meat.
Is meat from GB 2943 halal?
The code shows which plant cut, prepared or packed the meat, not whether it is halal. The business has "halal" in its name. That suggests it supplies the halal market, but a name is not a certificate: look for a certifier's logo. 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 mince approval means the plant makes minced meat. Mince is made from trimmings, so one batch can combine meat from several carcasses and suppliers.
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
- Is the raw meat halal certified at source?
- Is halal mince made separately from non-halal mince?
- 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 B postcode area has 40 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 7 of them slaughterhouses and 36 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Birmingham
- GB 2006 · TCR Food Services Limited
- GB 2032 · Supreme Halal Poultry UK Ltd
- GB 2110 · Osborne Poultry Ltd
- GB 2174 · Rapyal Meat & Poultry Ltd
- GB 2324 · Adam Halal Foods Limited
- GB 2552 · Asia Halal Meat Supplier Ltd
- GB 2553 · Haq Bahu Meat and Poultry Limited
- GB 2563 · Al-Noor Poultry Limited
Meat plants elsewhere in the B postcode area
- GB 1000 · Smethwick
- GB 2307 · Bromsgrove
- GB 2690 · Redditch
- GB 2932 · West Midlands
- GB 2978 · West Midlands
- GB 4138 · Bromsgrove
- GB 4535 · West Bromwich
- GB 4637 · Warley