Licence to Operate Slaughter-house
In Singapore, all slaughter-houses must be licensed by the Singapore Food Agency before they are permitted to carry out any food processing or storage for wholesale distribution.
- Validity
- 12 months
- Processing time
- An estimated 25 working days to process an application depending on the completeness of documents submitted in order to issue in principle approval (I
- Issuing authority
- SINGAPORE FOOD AGENCY (SFA)
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Who needs the Licence to Operate Slaughter-house
This licence applies to Singapore businesses registered under the following SSIC industry codes:
- Required to operate10101 — Slaughtering of livestock and poultry
- Required to operate10102 — Manufacture of sausage
Includes: 10102 Manufacture of sausage
Includes: 10103 Preparing, canning and preserving of livestock and livestock products
- Required to operate10104 — Preparing, canning and preserving of poultry and poultry products
Includes: 10104 Preparing, canning and preserving of poultry and poultry products
- Required to operate10109 — Processing and preserving of meat and meat products n.e.c.
Includes: 10109 Processing and preserving of meat and meat products n.e.c.
Required documents and prerequisites
Items the applicant typically needs ready before submitting:
- Architectural Layout Plan
- File Format: DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,PDF,PPT,PPTX,XLS,XLSX
- Maximum upload per application: 2MB
- Particulars of Products
- File Format: DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,PDF,PPT,PPTX,XLS,XLSX
- Maximum upload per application: 2MB
- Process Flow Chart
- File Format: DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,PDF,PPT,PPTX,XLS,XLSX
- Maximum upload per application: 2MB
- Others
- File Format: DOC,DOCX,GIF,JPG,PDF,PPT,PPTX,XLS,XLSX
- Maximum upload per application: 2MB
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Licence for Import/Export/Transhipment of Meat and Fish Products
Licence for Import/Transhipment of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
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