Meat and dairy,
where most
intermediaries stop
Products of animal origin carry requirements that ordinary freight does not. Approved establishments, veterinary certification, prior notification, physical inspection at the border. This is the category we built the business around.
What has to be true before anything moves
| Requirement | What it means |
|---|---|
| Approved establishment | The factory, dairy, abattoir or cold store at origin must hold an approval recognised by the destination market. Approval belongs to the site, not to the exporter. |
| Listed country | The country of origin must be authorised to export that commodity to the destination. |
| Health certificate | Issued and signed by an official veterinarian or authorised officer, on the correct model for the commodity and destination. |
| Prior notification | The consignment must be notified to the destination authority before arrival. |
| Border control post | Animal-origin goods enter through a designated post equipped for that commodity and temperature class. |
| Cold chain | Temperature maintained and recorded from loading to delivery. A break can void the certificate. |
Any one of these missing stops the consignment at the frontier. Goods held at a border control post are perishable, expensive to store, and often destroyed at the importer's cost.
We check the approval before you commit
The first thing we do on any animal-origin enquiry is verify that the origin establishment holds the approval required by your destination market. This is not a formality. A producer can be entirely legitimate domestically and still have no route to your country.
If the establishment is not eligible, we tell you before you place a deposit — and we look for a source that is. This check is part of the feasibility study, and it is the single reason most of these operations fail when someone else runs them.
Categories we work in
- Dairy — cream, butter, cheese, milk powders, ingredient dairy for manufacturing
- Meat and meat preparations, including halal certified product
- Fish and seafood
- Ambient and shelf-stable food, sauces, bakery, desserts, confectionery
- Frozen and chilled prepared food
- General consumer goods and commodities, case by case
Outside food we work case by case, and we say so plainly rather than claiming an expertise we do not have. Our labelling and certification depth is in food.
A worked example
A French manufacturer needed 40% fat cream from a British dairy. The dairy sold ex works only — it had no export function, no EORI in use, and no intention of building one for a single overseas customer. The French buyer had no UK establishment and could not act as exporter.
We bought the cream ex works in the United Kingdom, exported it under our own registration with the health certification the consignment required, moved it under temperature control across the Channel, imported it into the European Union and delivered it to the manufacturer's plant. The buyer received one delivered price. The dairy invoiced a domestic customer and did nothing new.
That supply has run since. Neither party has changed anything about how they work.
Halal and the Gulf
Food entering the Gulf markets needs halal certification from a body the destination recognises, a certificate of origin legalised by the chamber of commerce and in some cases the consulate, and product registration with the local authority. We have handled certification and customs documentation for Middle East grocery retail, and we distribute halal certified French product in the United Kingdom.