Defects in Indian Casings

DEFECTS IN CASINGS

  • Dull colour: (grayish or greenish instead of white or milky) due to defective cleaning .
  • Nodules: due to oesophagostomum (a round worm) in the intestines of sheep, goat and pigs
  • Holes and lacerations: caused by negligence or rough handling of guts during processing.
  • Salt burns: due to long storage of guts in the salt or packed loosely leaving the air inside. Such patches may also develop due to defective salt, which has calcium and magnesium ions.
  • Defective grading
  • Cicatrices: caused by scars of healed up intestinal wounds
  • Domestics: small grease spots in casings
  • Kink: twisted loop in the casings
  • Rust: black spot caused by putrefaction due to bacterial or fungal action 
Last modified: Thursday, 16 September 2010, 10:22 AM