Abattoir Practices and Animal Products Technology

ANCILLARY ACCOMODATION

• A separate room and hanging space shall be provided for emptying and cleaning of stomach and intestines.
• Viscera cleaning and separating departments should be divided into edible and inedible sections for further processing. This room shall have separate exit, provided with solid, self- closing doors and separated from the slaughter floor.
• Separate facilities provided for the isolation of meat which requires further examination in laboratory located within the premises of the abattoir.
• Separate provision for retention of meat condemned as unfit for human consumption is needed.
• Hide and skin room for separate storage must be provided.
• Labour welfare facilites:
• Toilet rooms provided away form the slaughter hall.
• Separate hall with lockers and shower facilities shall be provided.
• Adequate drinking water and washing facilities at convenient locations shall be provided.
• Canteen and first aid facilities shall be provided.
• Separate rendering facilities should be provided or the condemned material should he denatured and kept in inedible product room in water type metal containers and disposed daily,
• Refigerated Room, Hanging halls air-conditioned with temperature not more than 10⁰C