Criteria for offal disposition following plant stoppage

This project aims to develop and test a disposition protocol to enable offal that has not been removed from a body when a plant breakdown occurs to be assessed for human consumption rather than condemned. When the slaughter chain is stopped for more than 2 hours, uninspected offals from slaughtered cattle are condemned. This project aims to compare offals that are currently condemned with those processed from a normally operating chain. By comparing offals processed when there is greater than 2-hour delay with those processed from a normally operating chain, the project aims to develop a disposition criteria to enable offal that has not been removed from a body when a plant breakdown occurs to be accepted for human consumption rather than condemned.