Food safety approval

Who needs approval

​​​Your food business may require approval if you intend to use unprocessed products of animal origin.

This includes:

  • Minced meat and meat preparations.
  • Meat products like pies, and pasties and mechanically separated meat.
  • Live bi-valve molluscs and fishery products.
  • Raw milk - other than raw cow's milk
  • Dairy products
  • Eggs - not primary production
  • Egg products
  • Frogs legs and snails
  • Rendered animal fats and greaves
  • Treated stomachs, bladders and intestines
  • Gelatine and collagen
  • Cold stores and wholesale markets

Contact Environmental Health Services

Telephone: Click to call 0300 303 8871

Address: Public Protection Service
Number One Riverside
Smith Street
Rochdale OL16 1XU

Phone:
Monday–Friday, 8.30am–5.30pm

Closed for training Monday 11am–11.30am