Charcuterie Criteria

In order to be eligible for a Good Food Award charcuterie products must meet the following criteria:

• Must be handcrafted.
• Made in a facility that has a HACCP plan (if distributed wholesale).
• Made with meat from animals raised:

- using good animal husbandry*,
- out of confinement that restricts natural species-specific behaviors,
- with plenty of access to the outdoors,
- without gestation crates,
- without hormones,
- without sub-therapeutic antibiotics,
- without feed containing animal by-products.

• Butchered in a state, county or USDA approved facility.

*The Good Food Awards use the Animal Welfare Approved guidelines to define “good animal husbandry,” and will refer to them should there be any question as to eligibility based on this criterion.