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AssigneeStork PMT B.V.
InventorsMaurice Eduardus Theodorus van Esbroeck, Adrianus Josephes van den Nieuwelaar, Radboud Hubert Gerard Zwanikken
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A method is described for processing poultry, comprising the steps of supplying live poultry, stunning the live poultry in a stunning device, placing the stunned poultry into product carriers advanced along a conveyor, killing the poultry and removing the feathers from the dead poultry in a plucking device. Downstream of the plucking device, the poultry is exposed to an electrical stimulation, an electrical voltage (V1) being applied across the carcass of the poultry. A method is further described for controlling process parameters, especially the time and duration of execution of working steps in a process of mechanized working of slaughtered poultry, the tenderness of a specified meat portion being evaluated prior to a due processing step and, after this evaluation, the important process parameters for the particular processing step being set to an optimal value.
A method for processing poultry, comprising the steps of:
Method for evaluating the tenderness of a meat part of a slaughtered animal, in particular poultry, wherein the meat part is subjected to a concentrated blast, of predetermined duration and intensity, of a flowing medium, the evolution of the resultant surface deformation in the meat being closely observed, the measurement values thus obtained are compared with those obtained from a similar determination carried out on specimens of known tenderness and, from this comparison, a variable is derived characterizing the tenderness in question.
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