Method and apparatus for processing slaughtered poultry
AssigneeMeyn Food Processing Technology B.V.
InventorsAloysius Christianus Maria Van Steijn, Hans Peter Hoste, Daniël Derksen
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for processing slaughtered poultry that is conveyed in a slaughter line of a slaughter house, in order to establish at the start of said slaughter line whether the poultry was alive or dead on arrival at the slaughter house. Such can include the detection of a body parameter of the slaughtered poultry when the poultry is suspended by the legs in the slaughter line after stunning said poultry, and wherein an absorption spectrum of blood of the slaughtered poultry is determined.
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A method of processing slaughtered poultry conveyed in a slaughter line of a slaughter house in order to establish at the start of the slaughter line whether the poultry was alive or dead on arrival at the slaughter house, comprising:
- stunning the poultry;
- and
- detecting a body parameter of the slaughtered poultry when the poultry is suspended by the legs in the slaughter line after stunning the poultry by determining an absorption spectrum of blood of the slaughtered poultry.
An apparatus for processing slaughtered poultry, comprising
- a slaughter line;
- and
- means for establishing at the start of the slaughter line whether the poultry was alive or dead on arrival at the slaughter line, the mean embodied as detection means that are arranged to determine a body parameter of the slaughtered poultry when the poultry is suspended by the legs in the slaughter line, the detection means arranged to determine an absorption spectrum of blood of the slaughtered poultry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.