Halal meat group goes upmarket

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Halal World, a UK butchery group which supplies and retails meat prepared according to Muslim halal specifications, plans to raise 3m [pounds sterling] (??4.6m) by floating on Ofex, the junior market for small companies. The Birmingham-based company plans to grow its number of outlets from five to 50 within the next five years, with most of these stores sited in areas with a large Muslim population. Eventual expansion into Europe and the Middle East is also on the cards, and the group will buy its own abattoir to reduce raw material costs. Slaughtering is currently carried out under contract.

United Kingdom, Securities issued, listed, Meat industry, Securities, Halal World

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Boost to UK veal famers from Freedom Food

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Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has awarded UK-produced veal its approved Freedom Food label. The RSPCA's two-year-old campaign to encourage good animal husbandry methods is opposed to the continental method of rearing veal calves in crates. Its Freedom Food labels are well respected by the British public. Around 2,000 food outlets in Britain, including those of supermarket chain Tesco Stores LTD, sell Freedom Food labelled produce.

Professional Organizations, Standards Committees, Veal, Standards, Labeling, Animal culture, Animal husbandry

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Risk of new CJD now minimal, say UK scientists

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An emergency joint hearing of the Uk agriculture and health parliamentary committees heard evidence that humans are at minimal risk of infection with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) from eating beef. However many abattoirs have broken the rules relating to specified bovine offal, although chief veterinary officer Keith Meldrum believes that there have been encouraging improvements since anti-BSE regulations had been reinforced.

Whole Carcass Beef, Laws, regulations and rules, Prevention, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Cattle carcasses

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