About GB 4295
W James is based in Stoke on Trent (ST2), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for slaughtering animals, handling wild game and cutting meat, for cattle, sheep, goats and wild rabbits and hares.
Is meat from GB 4295 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 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.
A game handling approval covers wild game such as deer, wild birds and rabbits. Hunted animals are not slaughtered in the way farm animals are, so scholars apply different rules to them. Ask a scholar you trust before relying on a pack.
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 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?
- How were the animals killed, and is that accepted by a scholar you follow?
- 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 ST postcode area has 15 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 10 of them slaughterhouses and 14 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Stoke on Trent
Meat plants elsewhere in the ST postcode area
- GB 2368 · Uttoxeter
- GB 2501 · Stoke-on-Trent
- GB 2535 · Stoke-on-Trent
- GB 2656 · Longton
- GB 2670 · Leek
- GB 4197 · Newcastle-under-lyme
- GB 4276 · Stoke-on-Trent
- GB 4349 · Eccleshall