Premises approval

If your food business makes, prepares or handles food of animal origin and supplies to other premises (even within your ownership) as a significant part of your overall business, you will need approval instead of registration from the council.

If your business is a slaughterhouse or meat cutting plant, it will need to be approved by the Food Standards Agency.

What is food of animal origin?

Food of animal origin includes:

• meat and poultry - fresh, frozen or cooked
• meat products such as pies, sausage rolls, faggots, black pudding and bacon
• raw or partially cooked minced meat or meat preparations such as sausages, burgers, marinated raw meat and kebab meat
• fish and fish products such as fish fingers, prawns, lobsters, crabs and crayfish  (dead or alive)
• live bivalve molluscs
• ready meals containing fish or meat
• milk and dairy products such as butter, cream, cheese, yoghurt, ice-cream
• frogs legs and snails
• rendered animal fats and other animal by products such as gelatine, collagen, stomachs, bladders and intestines
• honey and blood

If the above applies to you, it is an offence to commence any food business activity unless you have received conditional or full approval from us.

How do I apply:- you can either download the application form on the righthand side of this page, or you can click on the following link and follow the instructions: Business Link Business Link This link will take you to an external website... .