About GB 4842
Furness Fish & Game Ltd is based in Grange-over-Sands (LA11), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cutting meat, handling wild game, making mince, making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat, processing meat products and cold storage, for wild birds, wild rabbits and hares and deer and wild game.
Is meat from GB 4842 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 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 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 mince approval means the plant makes minced meat. Mince is made from trimmings, so one batch can combine meat from several carcasses and suppliers.
What to ask before you rely on it
- 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?
- How were the animals killed, and is that accepted by a scholar you follow?
- Is the raw meat halal certified at source?
- Is halal mince made separately from non-halal mince?
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 LA postcode area has 13 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 3 of them slaughterhouses and 13 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Meat plants elsewhere in the LA postcode area
- GB 2139 · Grange over Sands
- GB 2168 · Lyth
- GB 4390 · Galgate
- GB 4578 · Morecambe
- GB 4794 · Ulverston
- GB 4822 · Kendal
- GB 4837 · Nr Grange-Over-Sands
- GB 4847 · Lancaster