About GB 4858
McTurk Catering Supplies Limited is based in Derby (DE23), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cutting meat, making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat, re-wrapping and repacking and cold storage.
Is meat from GB 4858 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 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 re-wrapping approval means the plant unwraps and packs meat again without preparing it. A pack can carry this plant's code while the meat was slaughtered and cut elsewhere, so the supplier before the repack matters.
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?
- Are all added ingredients halal, including casings and flavourings?
- Is the meat halal certified, and does the certificate cover this product?
- Who supplied the meat before it was repacked?
- Does the halal certificate cover the repacking step?
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 DE postcode area has 17 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 5 of them slaughterhouses and 15 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Derby
- GB 2654 · Cootehill Poultry Products Limited
- GB 2710 · S.Khan Poultry Ltd
- GB 2810 · Bernard Matthews Foods (Derby) Limited
- GB 2885 · Golden Meat & Poultry Ltd
- GB 4265 · Fairfax Meadow Europe Limited
- GB 4792 · TMC (Midlands) Limited
Meat plants elsewhere in the DE postcode area
- GB 2518 · Burton on Trent
- GB 2763 · Hartshorne
- GB 2972 · Heanor
- GB 4026 · Scropton
- GB 4241 · Alvaston
- GB 4242 · Burton-on-Trent
- GB 4313 · Alfreton
- GB 4319 · Matlock