About GB 4847
Halal Services Company Limited is based in Lancaster (LA1), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for slaughtering animals, processing meat products, cold storage and cutting meat, for cattle, sheep and goats.
Is meat from GB 4847 halal?
The code shows which plant slaughtered, cut 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 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 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.
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.
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?
- Is the finished product certified, not just the raw meat?
- Do the recipes contain gelatine, alcohol or other doubtful ingredients?
- Are halal-certified products stored separately and labelled?
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 4842 · Grange-over-Sands