Custom Meats

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Custom Meat Program

Claudia Coles, Program Manager
Roy Vataja, Program Assistant

For more information, e-mail us or call (360) 902-1876.

The WSDA Custom Meat Program licenses persons that slaughter or process uninspected meat food animals such as cattle, sheep, goats and swine for the sole consumption of the owner. The license categories are as follows: picture of a person working in a meat plant

  • Custom Meat Facilities... are licensed facilities that process-uninspected meat or inspected meat for the sole consumption of the owner.

  • Custom Farm Slaughterers... are mobile slaughter units licensed by WSDA to slaughter meat food animals for the owner. The slaughtering is done on the owner's farm or at an approved site.

  • Custom Slaughter Establishment ...is a fixed slaughter facility licensed by WSDA to slaughter meat food animals
    for the owner.

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