Background
We own and manage standards for the key pigmeat product groups:
- Pork: British Quality Assured Pork
- Bacon: Charter Quality British Bacon
- Ham and Cooked Pork: Charter Quality British Ham and Cooked Pork
- Sausage: British Quality Assured Pork Sausage.
These standards are widely respected and provide the assurance behind the well known Red Tractor consumer logo, owned by Assured Food Standards (AFS).
Members of the schemes who wish to apply the Red Tractor logo onto their products must be licensed to do so with AFS
The route for pigmeat assurance is as follows:
The pork, bacon and ham standards are accredited by UKAS to EN45011 and all standards are audited by an independent certification body. From 1 April 2012 the BMPA pigmeat schemes will be audited by Exova, NSF-CMi and SAI Global.
If you are interested in joining the BMPA Pigmeat schemes, please click here to complete the pre-application form and submit using the online tool or download and return by email.
The scheme modules and lists of suppliers are available via the following links: