Selling Home Killed Meat

colrow

Does anyone know are there rules and regulations regarding selling meat from home/freezer.

We kill the odd animal and get it cut up and bagged in the butchers, so are we allowed to sell it to anyone ?

Any pointers would be gratefully recieved

kerryman12

Hi

The only experiance I have on that front is from my experiance stalking deer. In that case one of the parties involved in the transaction needs a game deelers liceance.
I would image similar regulation will apply.

reilig

colrow wrote: »

Does anyone know are there rules and regulations regarding selling meat from home/freezer.

We kill the odd animal and get it cut up and bagged in the butchers, so are we allowed to sell it to anyone ?

Any pointers would be gratefully recieved

Legally you cannot kill the animal yourself and bring it to the butcher's to get it chopped up. Any meat processed by a butcher should have been inspected by a Vet beforehand and should have the relevant stamps. It needs to be slaughtered in a registered and licensed slaughterhouse that conforms to Food Safety Authority hygiene standards. After the butcher chops it up, you can do what you like with it so long as you store and handle it properly - you could be inspected by a Food safety inspector if you were selling it from a fixed premises or a stall at a market. But if you are just selling it to a few neighbours the day that you colect it from the butcher, then it would not be logistically possible for someone from the FSA to inspect you or trace the meat beyond you.

Rod & Reel

colrow wrote: »

Does anyone know are there rules and regulations regarding selling meat from home/freezer.

We kill the odd animal and get it cut up and bagged in the butchers, so are we allowed to sell it to anyone ?

Any pointers would be gratefully recieved

u cannot sell meat from ur own home without a full traceability cert in place.
the reason for the traceabilty is that if a person gets ill from the product it can be traced back to the farm and the Dept of Ag can inspect the herd and see what the problem is. Mad Cows Dis, Foot and Mouth, so on and so on.

A while back nearly all butchers with the exception of the large SuperMarkets Dunnes Tescos and SuperValu were selling Brazilian beef this was stopped as it was untraceable much to the dismay of the local butcher as it was getting it for a fraction of the irish beef cost.

(of course no one needs to know what your doing if its among friends)

I wish u well in whatever u deicide to do.

colrow

kerryman12 wrote: »

Hi

The only experiance I have on that front is from my experiance stalking deer. In that case one of the parties involved in the transaction needs a game deelers liceance.
I would image similar regulation will apply.

Thanks Kerryman

colrow

reilig wrote: »

Legally you cannot kill the animal yourself and bring it to the butcher's to get it chopped up. Any meat processed by a butcher should have been inspected by a Vet beforehand and should have the relevant stamps. It needs to be slaughtered in a registered and licensed slaughterhouse that conforms to Food Safety Authority hygiene standards. After the butcher chops it up, you can do what you like with it so long as you store and handle it properly - you could be inspected by a Food safety inspector if you were selling it from a fixed premises or a stall at a market. But if you are just selling it to a few neighbours the day that you colect it from the butcher, then it would not be logistically possible for someone from the FSA to inspect you or trace the meat beyond you.

Home Kill is a bit missleading, we're from Cornwall and its called that when you raise a beast or two for yourself for your own consumption, its killed at the abbotair and butchered and bagged at a proper butchers.

The important thing to us is we've raised the animals, and they have a good life, I'm a bit soft and get attached to them so I pay the emotional price for the meat as well as the financial cost.

Anyway, we've just put one bullock in the freezer and the other ones more or less ready to go, but I'm working away in Scootland and theres only herself at home, so the freezers jamm packed allready, thats why we wondered what the law was re selling it, we give some away for favours done.

Thanks for your info

colrow

Rod & Reel wrote: »

u cannot sell meat from ur own home without a full traceability cert in place.
the reason for the traceabilty is that if a person gets ill from the product it can be traced back to the farm and the Dept of Ag can inspect the herd and see what the problem is. Mad Cows Dis, Foot and Mouth, so on and so on.

A while back nearly all butchers with the exception of the large SuperMarkets Dunnes Tescos and SuperValu were selling Brazilian beef this was stopped as it was untraceable much to the dismay of the local butcher as it was getting it for a fraction of the irish beef cost.

(of course no one needs to know what your doing if its among friends)

I wish u well in whatever u deicide to do.

Thanks, its a bitch isn't it that foreign meat, the only people who gain are the effing bean counters at the business's that use it