A business must seek approval from the council if it manufactures or processes for supply to other businesses, products of animal origin. This includes meat, meat products including minced meat, fish or fishery products including shellfish, eggs, milk, dairy products and collagen.
Making an application
Before you apply, please email the details of your business operations to envhealth@cheltenham.gov.uk.
This will allow us to advise if you need to register as a food business or apply for approval.
Approval is free of charge and you do not need to register as a food business as well. You will need to download and complete and application form then return this to us in one of the following ways:
- By email: envhealth@cheltenham.gov.uk
- By post: Environmental Health, Cheltenham Borough Council, Municipal Offices, Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 9SA.
To determine the application, we will need to visit your site. An officer will contact you within 14 days of receipt of the completed application in order to arrange this.
You will be advised in writing within 28 days following the determination of your application for approval.
Required hygiene standards to meet approval
To obtain approval you will need to meet certain hygiene standards as set out in:
- Assimilated Law: Regulation (EC) 853/2004 Hygiene Rules for Food of Animal Origin
- Assimilated Law: Regulation (EC) 852/2004 Hygiene of Foodstuffs
Exemptions from approval
There are some exemptions from the requirement to be approved. If the food business supplies food of animal origin only to the final consumer then they are exempt from approval.
Additionally, there may be an exemption available depending on the extent to which the business wishes to supply food of animal origin to other businesses.
Should the food business be exempted from the requirement to be approved, it will then need to be registered with us as a food business. The food business operator needs to complete a food business registration instead.