Pel-Freez, LLC

Pel-Freez, LLC operates at 404 N. Arkansas Street in Rogers, Arkansas, in Benton County, under FSIS establishment numbers M202, P202 and V202. The federal record lists voluntary slaughter of meat and rabbit, voluntary processing of meat and rabbit, and export certification. The grant of inspection date on file is February 10, 2021. Species detail is not reported to FSIS, no custom-exempt activity is reported, and the FSIS size class is listed as N/A. The plant falls in FSIS slaughter volume category 4.0 on a scale where category 1 is under 1,000 head per year.

The company website presents Pel-Freez as a biologicals manufacturer rather than a meat retailer. It describes human and animal derived blood products, complement, sera, tissues and antibodies sold to vaccine research, assay development and academic laboratories. The custom services page states 40,000 square feet of ISO 9001 certified manufacturing space, the largest rabbit abattoir in the United States with full-time USDA inspection on site, 40 acres of company operated farms, and 110 full-time employees. Custom offerings listed include antibody and antiserum production, immunodepletion, CH50 complement testing, lyophilization, filtration, tissue extraction and procurement, blood fractionation and custom biospecimen procurement.

Nothing in the sources describes a retail meat counter, freezer sales, halves or quarters, or custom slaughter and cut and wrap for farm customers. A secondary listing references Pel-Freez Foods and a rabbit related grand opening in 2021, and another secondary listing gives a founding year of 1911 for Pel-Freez Biologicals, but neither is confirmed by the company text supplied here. Details beyond the federal record and the biologicals website are not yet on file.