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Meat processing: approval
Service Description
To operate a meat processing business, you need to be licensed by the authorities.
Requirements
- The legal requirements concerning compliance with food and feed law and animal health and welfare are met.
- There are no facts that justify the assumption that the food business operator does not have the necessary reliability to run the business.
Approval is granted on application after at least one on-site inspection by the authorities. It can be granted for a limited period and with conditions. With the approval, your establishment receives an approval number, which is made public.
No approval is required for retail establishments, such as artisanal butchers without slaughtering or restaurants that do not sell more than one-third of their products of animal origin to other local (i.e., located no more than 100 km away) retail establishments.
Butchers' establishments are subject to the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs and to the provisions of the Regulation implementing Community legislation on foodstuffs. Establishments that distribute a not merely incidental share of their production (maximum one-third) via branches or other food establishments as well as catering establishments at local level (max. 100 km) are subject to an approval requirement under Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 with specific hygiene regulations for food of animal origin. In addition, further provisions of food law may be relevant.
In particular, the structural and other requirements for ensuring good hygienic practices in the company must exist, as well as a complete concept for hazard analysis and control of the production processes used (HACCP concept). This HACCP concept must be verified by means of microbiological self-monitoring in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs. For more detailed information, please refer to the leaflet issued by the Veterinary and Food Control Office. Compliance with these requirements must be demonstrated in on-site inspections.
Who should I contact?
In principle, the Thuringian State Office for Consumer Protection is the approval authority in Thuringia.
By way of derogation, establishments that cut less than 5 tons of meat per week or produce less than 7.5 tons of meat products, minced meat or meat preparations are to be approved by the competent veterinary and food control authorities.
Which documents are required?
The application must be accompanied by
- an operating chart,
- a draft of an operating plan drawn to scale, showing
- the flow of materials and personnel, and
- the list of machines
(in the case of handicraft structured enterprises: documents showing the activity intended in the respective premises) and
- proof of the reliability of the food business operator.
enclose
For all establishments:
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Site details
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Furnishings plan (true to scale is not required)
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Description of operation with product range
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HACCP concept
For approval additionally:
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Self-inspection documents according to the information sheet
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Proof of the reliability of the food business operator
What are the fees?
Depending on the administrative effort, fees of between 120.00 and 900.00 euros are incurred in accordance with the Thuringian administrative cost regulations for the area of responsibility of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Family and Health.
none
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
The authorization must be applied for sufficiently long (preferably three months) before starting the activity, as the activity may not be started without the granted authorization.
Legal basis
- Article 4 (2) Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin
- § Article 9 Animal Food Hygiene Ordinance - Tier-LMHV
- Thuringian Foodstuffs Competence Ordinance (ThürLÜZVO)
- Thuringian administrative cost regulation for the business area of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Family and Health
Appeal
The application may be submitted informally, but it cannot be finalized without the attachments listed above.
What else should I know?
Activities other than meat processing that require handling food of animal origin, such as cheese production or wholesale of food of animal origin, are also generally subject to licensing.
The above mentioned documents:
- Regulation (EC) No. 852/2004 of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs.
- Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin
- Regulation (EC) No. 2073/2005 of 15 November 2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs
- Regulation implementing provisions of the Community legislation on food hygiene
can be found on this page:
http://www.erfurt.de/ef/de/rathaus/sv/aemter/stelle-317.htmc
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
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