LPT 312: Abattoir Practices and Animal Products Technology (1+1)

BUILDINGS AND THEIR DISPOSITIONS

The slaughterhouse may consist of (a) main department and (b) accessory department.

 Main department

This department may have the following units

• Lairage Weighment room
• Stunning chamber
• Slaughter hall
• Cooling hall
• Hide and skin store
• Manure house
• Detention room
• Condemned meat room
• Boiler house
• Facilities for Personnel
• Mess rooms
• Bath rooms
• Veterinary Office
• Office accommodation
• Superintendent’s office and
• Veterinary Laboratory

 Accessory department

• The accessory department may consist of the following units
  • Gut and tripe room
  • Red offal room
  • Edible Fat room
  • Cutting rooms
  • Inedible Area
  • Equipment Wash
  • Digester room
  • Blood drying yard
  • Fresh Meat Dispatch Area
  • Residential quarters
  • Isolation block
• It will be observed from the above list, that each of the rooms is intended to serve certain special needs in the slaughter, dressing and subsequent disposal of food animals’ carcasses in the order of operations taking place here.

Layout of Cattle Slaughter house 1 

Layout of Cattle Slaughter house 2  

Layout of Pig Slaughter house