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Poultry slaughter process
Poultry processing involves the series of chains involved in the extraction of meat from poultry birds. On a small scale, poultry processing involves simple processes as one or a few birds are to be processed into meat. Commercial production of birds usually involves the slaughtering and safe processing of large quantities of domesticated birds like broilers under safe conditions for human consumption. Steps involved In poultry processing: stunning and killing, scalding, defeathering, removal of heads and legs, evisceration and inspection, cleaning and chilling, additional testing, cutting and deboning, packaging, and shipping.
All forms of unnecessary suffering by animals must be avoided, but religious freedom must be respected, says the Agriculture Committee, which voted on Monday on plans to tighten up the rules on animal welfare at the time of slaughter.
Every year in the European Union, 360 million pigs, cattle, sheep and goats are killed, as are over 4 billion poultry birds and 25 million animals reared for fur. In a consultation report drafted by Janusz Wojciechowski (UEN, PL), the Agriculture...
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In previous Processing Tips, the effect of stress before slaughter on color of poultry breast meat was discussed. It was noted that birds exposed to stress before slaughter may yield abnormally pale or dark breast meat. Broilers experience preslaughter stress when they encounter an external stimuli or unsettling circumstances that are adverse or disruptive. The immediate response to the stress, among other things, is an increase in heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, and muscular tension....
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South Korean quarantine officials are to slaughter 236,000 poultry after an outbreak of the H5N1 form of bird flu at a chicken farm.
The outbreak occurred at a farm in Iksan, about 250km (155 miles) south of Seoul, earlier this week.
Test results confirmed the outbreak was caused by a type of H5N1 virus, the country's agriculture ministry said.
It said all birds within a 500-metre (1,650-foot) radius would be culled to prevent the virus from spreading.
The ministry also said it...
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Indonesia's president said Monday the country could not afford the mass slaughter of chickens in bird flu-infected areas, but that he hoped the World Bank would be able to fund a culling program in the future.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's remarks come ahead of a visit by a top EU health official to discuss ways to boost the country's fight against bird flu.
International experts say culling healthy birds close to the site of infected flocks is the best way to contain the spread of the...
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The 2005 U.S. Poultry & Egg Association's Poultry Processor Workshop will be held May 18-19 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta.
The focus of the workshop is to keep management up to date on key issues and latest developments that impact their plants.
Topics will include poultry processing . . . back to basics, microbial performance standards, Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points/Sanitation Standard Operating Plans, food and facility security and animal welfare.
"Modern...
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