HALAL FOOD ON CAMPUS
University College London is a multicultural community, with a diverse body of students, staff and visitors who have differing religious and non-religious beliefs and ethics. We are committed to ensuring that our food & beverage service meets the needs of this diverse community.
Food at UCL does not operate any exclusively Halal kitchens.
We are proud to serve 100% Red Tractor certified meat at UCL ensuring that we are purchasing from British meat-producers held to environmental and ethical standards. We seek to ensure that all the Red Tractor meat is also certified halal, however, this is not always possible.
Please ask your server and look for the halal symbol on the menus to indicate when a dish contains halal meat.
You can read more about our Responsible Animal Source-Food Sourcing Standards.
HALAL SANDWICHES
Our supplier for sandwiches (Soho Sandwiches) has provided us with a statement on their halal policy.
“The Soho Sandwich Co is a SALSA certified sandwich manufacturer that recognizes and understands the Halal foods manufacturing standard. The Soho Sandwich site is not certified by any Halal certification bodies in the UK but as a business, we enforce a strict manufacturing standard to prevent cross contamination at every stage of the manufacturing process. Systems and procedures are in place and strictly implemented to maintain a high-level of control in the prevention of microbiological and allergen cross contamination in our products. We produce a range of sandwiches that include vegan, vegetarian and meat products. Halal and non-halal meats are handled in our factory. Strict segregation, labelling and product change-over procedures are enforced and risk of cross contact or contamination is prevented effectively. We have partnered with some selected producers of Halal certified chicken which can be found in several our products. The Halal chicken that we receive is supplied on a positive release basis and comes with certification from the manufacturer. In addition, we carry out routine traceability exercises to verify the authenticity of the chicken they supply.”
