Food licensing and registration

We're responsible for regulating food safety at premises across the region where food is stored, prepared, distributed or sold.

Products of animal origin approval

Food businesses that manufacture products of animal origin such as meat products, dairy products or eggs may need approval if they use: 

  • minced meat
  • meat preparations
  • mechanically separated meat
  • meat products
  • live bivalve molluscs (shellfish)
  • fishery products
  • dairy products
  • eggs and egg products (not primary production)
  • frog legs
  • snails
  • rendered animal fats and greaves
  • treated stomachs, bladders and intestines
  • gelatine
  • collagen

Contact us if you are not sure if you need to register

Telephone: 030 33 33 3000
Email [email protected]

How to apply

Complete the approval application form and send it to the address on the form.