UK Abattoirs / Slaughterhouses

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Abattoir listings by UK region

The Tracing Paper’s Food Tracer provides fulls listing of all red meat, poultry and game abattoirs, with EC approval / identification codes and other details, for each region of the United Kingdom:

Further information on Every Business
Follow the more info links on each page for a custom search of information and news from selected authoritative meat industry, farming and government sources, including the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, Competition Commission, Food Standards Agency, Trading Standards and trade publications such as the Meat Trades Journal and MeatProcess.com.

Detailed information

Each abattoir is listed with additional detail in the following format:

EU – EC approval number / identification code / health mark
Business name (more info…)
Address
Facilities: from slaughterhouse, cutting plant, meat preparation, minced meat, processing, re-wrapping, cold store, game handling
Species slaughtered: from cattle (bovine), sheep (ovine), pigs (porcine), goats (caprine), poultry, farmed game, wild birds, wild lagomorphs (rabbits, hares), wild ungulates (deer)
Certified organic by: Certification body if certified
Identified products / outlets: Any observed or reported

Source and Development

This list is a Food Tracer resource, providing access to basic information about sources of food. Food Tracer is currently in development.

Source include the Food Standards Agency’s lists of approved red, poultry, and game meat establishments, personal contact / observation and company reports / websites. Information retrieved May 2009. Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI).

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A note on spelling

Abattoir is the correct British spelling, while slaughterhouse (occasionally “slaughter house”) is preferred by Americans and the Food Standards Agency. In Britain, most attempted spellings of abattoir (a word borrowed from French) are correct, but “abbatoir” is a frequent misspelling, with “abatoir” and “abbattoir” rather less common. (See Google’s Insights for Search comparison of the alternatives.)