Some hygienic problems in the production of meat and bone meal from slaughterhouse offal and animal carcasses.

A study of uncut anthrax-infected slaughterhouse waste in the sterilizer of an animal destructor after the prescribed heating at 130 degrees C for 30 min showed that in 17 cases Bacillus anthracis was able to survive. The determination of z-values for B. anthracis and B. stearothermophilus showed that when slaughterhouse waste is cut up into pieces of no more that 50 g weight the temperature at the centre may lie between 120 degrees C for 20 min and 130 degrees C for 10 min for destruction of spore formers. The resulting animal meal is of improved protein quality by this treatment. These results and conclusions cannot be directly transferred to fat bath treatment of meat, because of the significant difference caused by the use of vapour pressure methods.