If your business makes, prepares or handles food of animal origin for sale to other businesses, it may need approval from the council in addition to being registered.
Food of animal origin includes
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Meat and poultry, whether fresh, frozen or cooked
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Meat products such as pies, sausage rolls, faggots, black pudding or bacon
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Raw or partially cooked minced meat or meat preparations such as sausages, burgers, marinated raw meat and kebab meat
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Fish or fish products such as fish fingers, prawns, lobsters, crabs and crayfish, whether dead or alive
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Live bivalve molluscs
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Ready meals containing fish or meat
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Milk and dairy products such as butter, cream, cheese, yoghurt and ice cream
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Frogs legs and snails
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Rendered animal fats and other animal by products such as gelatine, collagen, stomachs, bladders and intenstines
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Honey and blood
You must not begin any business activity which requires approval unless you have received conditional or full approval for that activity from the council. If you do, you are committing an offence.
To obtain such approval, your business must meet structural and procedural standards. Approval will not be given unless you meet the required standards
Exemptions
There are some exemptions from the requirement to be approved.
If your business supplies food of animal original to the final consumer, that is the person who eats the product, it will be exempt.
It may also be exempt depending on the extent to which you supply food of original origin to other businesses.
However, your food business must still be registered| with the council.
For more information about food premises approval, contact us.|