Meat production

Services

Export or move poultry meat: apply for an optional indications certificate

Apply to export or move poultry meat from Great Britain to the EU or Northern Ireland.

Meat products: sell them legally in England
- Detailed guide
- 3 January 2017
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Food Standards Agency
Comply with the Compulsory Beef Labelling Scheme
- Detailed guide
- 22 January 2021
- Rural Payments Agency
Apply for a full Certificate of Competence to slaughter or kill animals
- Detailed guide
- 4 June 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Food Standards Agency
Poultry meat marketing standards
- Detailed guide
- 16 September 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
The Beef Carcase Classification scheme: classify carcases
- Detailed guide
- 1 January 2021
- Rural Payments Agency

British pork producers to bring home the bacon
- 9 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
Applications open for new 拢4 million fund to support smaller abattoirs
- 13 December 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Rural Payments Agency
- Press release
Japan opens doors to British cooked poultry meat
- 27 October 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Government announces plan to ensure fairness and transparency across pig sector supply chain
- 6 April 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Mexican market opens its doors for imports of British pork
- 2 September 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Closed organisation: Department for International Trade, and Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
- Press release

Northern Ireland Food and Drinks Processing Report 2019
- 30 July 2021
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics

Contractual practice in the UK pig sector
- 6 April 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 07 October 2022