Related Experiment Videos
Evaluation of cross-contamination on automatic viscera removal equipment
1Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-4875.
Poultry Science
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
Contamination of poultry carcasses by fecal or ingested material is a major problem in the processing of poultry products. It was determined that the automatic equipment used to process uncontaminated carcasses could be used to clean and reprocess contaminated carcasses and significantly reduce the manual labor required to reprocess these carcasses. The potential for cross-contamination of the automatic viscera removal equipment was tested by microbiological evaluation, and it was determined that cross-contamination by this equipment was not a problem.