Abattoir Practices and Animal Products Technology

IMPORTANCE OF GRADING

• Grading helps the producer through authorized agencies to certify animal and carcasses for class, quality and condition.
• Grading helps the producer to recognise the quality he produced and paves ways for better planning to improve breeding programme and to produce high-grade animals and carcasses.
• Grading helps the producer to select the required types according to the needs of the market and consumer.
• Grading helps the processor to adopt or decide methods and procedures for disposing animals and carcasses.
• Grading helps the consumers to purchase assured quality of meat and gives satisfaction over the money spent on purchasing the meat.
• Grading enables the consumer to utilise meat most efficiently by preparing it in the manner for which it is best suited.