Method for treating slaughtered animals
AssigneeMeat Processing Service Corporation
InventorsDouglas H. Bernharadt, Guillermo R. Matheu
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Abstract
Method of injecting treatment solution into slaughtered animals involving electrical stimulation, chilling of the injection solution and use of a self-piercing injection nozzle, among other things.
Claims6
In a method involving injection of treatment solution into the vascular system of a slaughtered animal, the improvement comprising severing the major vessels in all legs of the animal, the application of electrical stimulation to the animal substantially immediately upon bleeding it and the injection of cooled treatment solution at a pressure of at least about 45 pounds, all substantially simultaneously.
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