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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.

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

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.

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

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.

Author

The text was automatically translated based on the German content per DeepL.

Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)

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