About GB 5430
Ben Rigby Game Ltd is based in Maldon (CM9), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cold storage, cutting meat, handling wild game, making mince, making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat and re-wrapping and repacking, for wild birds, wild rabbits and hares and deer and wild game.
Is meat from GB 5430 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 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.
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?
- How were the animals killed, and is that accepted by a scholar you follow?
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 CM postcode area has 13 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 4 of them slaughterhouses and 13 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Other meat plants in Maldon
Meat plants elsewhere in the CM postcode area
- GB 1060 · Ongar
- GB 1065 · White Roding
- GB 2720 · Chelmsford
- GB 2881 · Chelmsford
- GB 5088 · Chelmsford
- GB 5268 · Harlow
- GB 5269 · Chelmsford
- GB 5280 · Burnham-on-Crouch