ENA Meat Packing Corp.

ENA Meat Packing Corp., which also does business as Senat Poultry LLC, operates under USDA FSIS establishment numbers M1842 and P17778 at 2-8 Warren Street in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey. The federal record lists the plant's activities as meat processing, poultry processing and poultry slaughter, with poultry reported as the species slaughtered under inspection. FSIS classes the establishment as small, records a grant of inspection date of October 18, 2017, reports kosher slaughter, and places it in slaughter volume category 4.0. No custom-exempt activity is reported to FSIS.

The company website describes the business primarily as a halal operation. It states ENA was founded in 1989 by Zatibey Kucukkarca and his brother Ali Kucukkarca, began as a small halal slaughterhouse in Whippany, New Jersey, and relocated to Paterson after a fire. The site describes the business as a 100 percent halal slaughterhouse that slaughters under Islamic law without stunning, and says Senat Poultry was founded in 2009 by Atabey Kucukkarca for halal poultry. The site also claims the business is the largest halal meat slaughterhouse in the United States. Note that FSIS records kosher slaughter for this establishment while the website describes halal slaughter and Sharia board certification; both are reported here as stated in their respective sources.

Addresses and phone numbers also differ between sources. The federal record lists 2-8 Warren Street and (973) 742-4407, while the website and secondary listings give 240 East 5th Street, Paterson, NJ 07524, and (973) 742-4790. The website describes supplying wholesalers and small stores and markets in the tri-state area during the week, with Saturdays open to the public, and says animals come from a family ranch in Lometa, Texas.

The website states that custom kill is offered on Saturdays. FSIS, however, reports no custom-exempt activity for this establishment, so any custom work would be handled under federal inspection as listed. The website also indicates the company raises and supplies its own animals from a family ranch in Texas and does not use a middleman to process them, and that animals are hand harvested the same day they arrive. Booking procedures, minimums, scheduling lead times, kill fees and cut and wrap charges for outside livestock are not stated in the sources on file.

ENA Meat Packing Corp. operates under a federal grant of inspection, so product from this plant can be sold anywhere in the United States, which matters if you sell online or across a state line. FSIS does not list a custom-exempt activity for this plant.

The website describes a fresh daily meat counter with a complete menu and says the business serves wholesalers during the week and is open to the public on Saturdays, while also listing store hours Monday through Saturday. Hot food is offered as well, per the website. Products are described as fresh and never frozen, shipped out within 24 hours of entering the facility, and sold as whole and split carcasses, quarters and primal cuts rather than consumer packaged bundles. Eid pricing on the site lists whole lamb at $550, whole goat at $550 and whole live beef at $3.75 per pound. Delivery, shipping to households and online ordering are not described in the sources.

If you are buying a half or quarter animal, the plant is where the animal is processed; the farm sells you the animal. Read how to buy a half cow for the sequence and the math.