[The quality of meat and lard of pigs fed waste fat derived from perchlorethylene extraction]

Throughout the fattening period, six pigs of the Landrace breed were fed waste fat from perchlorethylene extraction added to the feed ration at a 5-per-cent rate. The waste fat from the rendering plant contained 0.45% residual perchlorethylene. Two groups, each containing six animals of the same breed, one group being fed a ration without any fat supplement and the other being fed a ration containing 5% of its volume as rendering-plant fat obtained by pressing, were examined at the same time during the trial. The basic composition of meat was not affected by the feeding of waste fat from rendering plants. The lard of pigs fed a supplement of rendering-plant fat with perchlorethylene oxidated somewhat more quickly during storage than the lard of control pigs. The sensory quality of meat stock, boiled and roast meat, lard, and scraps was not affected by the feeding of rendering-plant fat; the taste and flavour of the products were normal. No residues of perchlorethylene were detected either organoleptically or instrumentally in the meat and lard of pigs.