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IN the Benjamin Ward Richardson Lecture recently delivered at the Royal Sanitary Institute, Mr. John Austin dealt with the hygienic treatment and disposal of offal and by-products in abattoirs. He said that two most important considerations govern the treatment of animal offal, namely, (1) the hygienic disposal of animal waste matter, and (2) its economic utilization. Suitable premises are needed to which all raw material can be brought from the slaughter-hall with the minimum amount of handling; they should be well lighted and ventilated and provided with an abundant supply of steam and hot and cold water. Mr. Austin then considered by-product work under the headings of blood, hides and skins, tripe, casings, edible fat and inedible offal, all of which require immediate treatment owing to the rapidity of decomposition after slaughter.
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Disposal of Offal. Nature 143, 514 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143514c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143514c0