Talk:EC identification and health marks

This page needs a link to a full list of UK facilities that hold a health mark, so that we can see which factory various products are coming from.

Possible confusion in terminology

I had suspected some confusion regarding the official name of these oval markings, so I dived into the official regulation PDFs available on the EU's websites, and it looks like there is a separate health mark for raw meat and milk (as source materials for food production/processing, to identify eg. slaughterhouses) and an identification mark for meat and milk products (processed consumer products, to identify eg. plants producing sausages). Relevant EC regulations would be EC/853/2004 and EC/854/2004. Though their format is the same, with the facility approval number (the middle part) having an optional prefix in some countries. Thus, the pictured marks aren't health but identification marks, because it isn't raw milk, but milk intended for consumption by the public. --Rev L. Snowfox (talk) 15:01, 8 September 2013 (UTC)