About GB 8393
Pilgrim's Pride Corsham is based in Corsham (SN13), England. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cutting meat, making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat and processing meat products.
Is meat from GB 8393 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 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
- 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?
- 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 SN postcode area has 7 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 2 of them slaughterhouses and 7 cutting plants. England has 731 in total.
Meat plants elsewhere in the SN postcode area
- GB 2284 · Devizes
- GB 2600 · Melksham
- GB 2813 · Wiltshire
- GB 8201 · Swindon
- GB 8249 · Chippenham
- GB 8333 · Melksham