About GB 2956
Sam Browne Foods Limited is based in Driffield (YO25), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat, cutting meat, processing meat products and re-wrapping and repacking.
Is meat from GB 2956 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 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.
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?
- Is the finished product certified, not just the raw meat?
- Do the recipes contain gelatine, alcohol or other doubtful ingredients?
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 YO postcode area has 9 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 4 of them slaughterhouses and 6 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Driffield
Meat plants elsewhere in the YO postcode area
- GB 2060 · Malton
- GB 2103 · York
- GB 2141 · York
- GB 2147 · Selby
- GB 2523 · York
- GB 2755 · York
- GB 2825 · York