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Swine Slaughter and Processing Steps

Its printed title: Swine Abattoir Operations: Comprehensive Protocols for Skin Preservation, Safe Evisceration, and Carcass Splitting

Pig slaughter as an abattoir runs it, with the skin kept on for crackling, bellies and cured hams. It covers resting pigs before the kill, stunning by current or gas, sticking, scalding, scraping and singeing, clean evisceration, splitting, chemical sprays on the carcass and the digestion test for trichinella. It cites a legal minimum of 1.3 amperes for 3 seconds for electrical stunning. The frame is the commercial line, with gas pits and steam vacuum wands, not the pig killed at home.

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FEASTING after the FALL
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52 Swine Slaughter and Processing Steps.pdf
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  • 3 confirmed
  • 3 amended
  • 4 marked for safety
  • B13 amended Safety Scald safety: 200 l at 62 °C from a 50 l copper lit at four; over-scald >62–63 °C cooks skin and sets bristles (only remedy skin the pig), under 58 no release, loosening reverses …
  • B18 amended Safety Hanging without a chiller: industry ≤7 °C core within 20–24 h; yard 0–4 °C 7–10 days, 10 °C 3 days, above 15 do not kill; flies stop below 10 °C, muslin door, halves not touching; …
  • B6 confirmed Safety Pig stun: bolt on light charge a finger above the line between the eyes, midline, aimed at tail; stick within 15 s (industry limit for head-only electrical, adopted for every …
  • B9 amended Safety Trichinella: every part of an untested pig cooked to 70 °C at centre; no raw Mett, cold-smoked raw sausage or air-dried ham from an untested pig; dies in 1 min at 60, at once at …
  • B40 confirmed Pig: pale weeping meat after 10 min chase (PSE, no salt uptake); restraint two people, corner/board or jaw snare; head on for the hang so cheeks, ears, tongue, brain reach the …
  • B41 confirmed Scald: Brühtrog or door and pails; bristle-tuft test; rosin (Kolophonium) handful makes bristles pull; bell scraper with the grain; turned with a chain (Brühkette); half at a …

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Its works cited 102

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  • 61 journals, universities and public bodies
  • 1 book, archive or patent
  • 4 document-sharing sites
  • 3 forums, video and social sites
  • 6 blogs
  • 1 shop or maker
  • 25 other web pages
  • 1 without an address
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