About GB 5260
Bramfield Meats Ltd is based in Halesworth (IP19), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cold storage, cutting meat, processing meat products and re-wrapping and repacking.
Is meat from GB 5260 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 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.
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 halal-certified products stored separately and labelled?
- 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 IP postcode area has 15 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 6 of them slaughterhouses and 15 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Halesworth
- GB 1090 · Cleveleys Foods Limited
- GB 2826 · Clarkes Farmers Butchery Ltd
- GB 5049 · Bernard Matthews Foods Limited
Meat plants elsewhere in the IP postcode area
- GB 1087 · Ipswich
- GB 2067 · Ipswich
- GB 2641 · Harleston
- GB 2750 · Yaxley
- GB 2811 · Bury St Edmunds
- GB 5003 · Stowmarket
- GB 5008 · Eye
- GB 5213 · Thetford