Abattoir Practices and Animal Products Technology

MEAT FATS

• Fat from animals has been used for many purposes - both edible and inedible.
• They may be obtained from all food animals and poultry.
• Greater quantities are obtained from beef and pork and lesser quantities from sheep, goat and poultry.
• With the exception of hides and skins, fat is the most important by-product of the slaughterhouses.
• The term edible and inedible fat refers to human consumption.
  • Inedible fats are widely used in the animal feeds.
  • Edible fats from swine is called lard or rendered pork fat and from sheep and cattle are known as Edible Tallow.