About UK 9097
Pinkertons Ltd. is based in ARMAGH (BT60), Northern Ireland. The Food Standards Agency approves it for cold storage, cutting meat, making meat preparations such as sausages and marinated meat and processing meat products, for pigs.
Is meat from UK 9097 halal?
The code shows which plant cut, prepared or packed the meat, not whether it is halal. It is approved to handle pigs as well as other animals, so check the halal certification on the pack carefully. 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 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
- 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?
- 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 BT postcode area has 51 approved meat plants in the Food Standards Agency list, 19 of them slaughterhouses and 46 cutting plants. Northern Ireland has 51 in total.
Other meat plants in ARMAGH
- UK 9024 · Hewitt Meats
- UK 9137 · Oak Hill Farm and Pol Meats
- UK 9304 · Tullyelmer Ltd
- UK 9309 · Kingsbury Farm Enterprises Ltd
- UK 9554 · Rockvale Poultry
Meat plants elsewhere in the BT postcode area
- UK 9001 · NEWRY
- UK 9011 · BALLYMENA
- UK 9012 · DUNGANNON
- UK 9013 · BALLYMONEY
- UK 9016 · LONDONDERRY
- UK 9023 · DUNGANNON
- UK 9026 · CARRICKFERGUS
- UK 9033 · CRAIGAVON