The effect of carcass weight, age at slaughter and sex on some chemical components was evaluated in twenty-two Boutsiko lambs (twelve females and ten males). Chemical composition of meat was expressed as percentage of fat, protein, collagen and moisture content. Measures of the four chemical components were taken by carcass cuts included shoulder, leg, racks, kidney, rear flank, breast ribs and...

Transportation is considered as a major stressor for farm animals and might have deleterious effects on the health, wellbeing, performance and ultimately on product quality. The European Commission has adopted new transportation rules for animal transport, but research on stress related situations before, during and after transport is still scarce. Assessment of stress during animal transportat...

Meta-analysis study of the effect transportation distance on physiological conditions, pre-slaughter and broiler meat quality was carried out to examine magnitude calculate publication bias quality. The materials obtained from 1123 studies 622 relevant were selected 62 journals for further analysis. Parameters observed related conditions consisted blood glucose levels, corticosterone body tempe...

Salmonella remains an important foodborne pathogen of concern to public health and therefore, the swine industry. Significant strides have been made at decreasing Salmonella contamination in one link of the pork chain, namely, at slaughter and processing. It is expected that standards at slaughter and processing will become more stringent, creating pressure from packers and processors to reduce...

This paper focuses on the development of a unique wireless pH and temperature monitoring system to assess pig meat quality. Pale, soft and exudative (PSE) pig meat continues to be a major problem in the pig meat industry today. The PSE condition in pork is related to a number of factors including genetics, pre-slaughter stress and insufficient chilling of pig carcasses, which cause a rapid rate...

to study the feasibility of anaerobic filter in raw sewage and slaughter house wastewater treatment, slaughter house wastewater treatment, a batch flow pilot plant was designed. in phase one, with a detention time of 3-days and no mixing, the maximum reduction in cod was 23%. in the second phase, with a detention time of 2-days and complete mixing, glucose was added to the raw sewage, the reduc...