Butchers' Licensing

New EU Food Hygiene Regulations

• New EU Food Hygiene Regulations, the Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006  came into force on 1 January 2006.
• From this date, butchers selling unwrapped raw meat and ready to eat food will be subject to the above regulations and will not require a licence to operate.
• The new EU Regulations contain very similar HACCP requirements to the previous butchers licence scheme; therefore butchers must continue to operate current HACCP systems from 1 January 2006.

For further information:

• Contact: Food, Health and Safety Team, Mansion House, Penrith CA11 7YG
• Telephone: (01768) 212491
• Email: env.health@eden.gov.uk
• Fax: (01768) 890372