Method for processing poultry

Details Method for processing poultry Method for processing poultry

2007-08-01

2009-02-24

Price, Thomas (Department: 3643)

Butchering

Slaughtering

Stunning

Reexamination Certificate

active

07494406

ABSTRACT:
A method for processing poultry, includes supplying live poultry, stunning the live poultry in a stunning device, placing the stunned poultry into product carriers advanced along a conveyor, killing the poultry and removing the feathers from the dead poultry in a plucking device. Downstream of the plucking device, the poultry is exposed to an electrical stimulation, an electrical voltage being applied across the carcass of the poultry. A method for controlling process parameters, especially the time and duration of execution of working steps in a process of mechanized working of slaughtered poultry, includes evaluating the tenderness of a specified meat portion prior to a due processing step and, after this evaluation, setting the important process parameters for the particular processing step to an optimal value.

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