About GB 7047
Maelor Foods Limited is based in Wrexham (LL13), Wales. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cutting meat, slaughtering animals and making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat, for poultry.
Is meat from GB 7047 halal?
The code shows which plant slaughtered, cut 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 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 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.
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?
- 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?
- Are all added ingredients halal, including casings and flavourings?
- Is the meat halal certified, and does the certificate cover this product?
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 LL postcode area has 11 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 5 of them slaughterhouses and 11 cutting plants. Wales has 41 in total.
Other meat plants in Wrexham
- GB 7103 · David Thomas James Thomas Stephen Thomas & Simeon Thomas (T/A D & J Thomas)
- GB 7105 · Cyril Jones and Stephen Jones T/A Jones Brothers
- GB 7115 · Gwyn Jones & Robert Jones (T/A Stanley Jones)
Meat plants elsewhere in the LL postcode area
- GB 7006 · Anglesey
- GB 7020 · Llangefni
- GB 7023 · Blaenau Ffestiniog
- GB 7099 · Llanrwst
- GB 7147 · Corwen
- GB 7181 · Kinmel Bay
- GB 7211 · Corwen