Girasole, Mariagrazia (2015) Researches on animal welfare and meat quality in a poultry processing plant. [Tesi di dottorato]
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| Item Type: | Tesi di dottorato |
|---|---|
| Resource language: | English |
| Title: | Researches on animal welfare and meat quality in a poultry processing plant |
| Creators: | Creators Email Girasole, Mariagrazia mariagrazia.girasole@unina.it |
| Date: | 27 March 2015 |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Institution: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: | Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche |
| Scuola di dottorato: | Scienze veterinarie per la produzione e la sanità |
| Dottorato: | Produzione e sanità degli alimenti di origine animale |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 27 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email Cortesi, Maria Luisa cortesi@unina.it |
| Tutor: | nome email Cortesi, Maria Luisa UNSPECIFIED |
| Date: | 27 March 2015 |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Keywords: | Poultry;welfare;stunning;myopathy |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 07 - Scienze agrarie e veterinarie > VET/04 - Ispezione degli alimenti di origine animale |
| Aree tematiche (7° programma Quadro): | SALUTE e TUTELA DEL CONSUMATORE > Sicurezza alimentare, salute degli animali, benessere e salute degli animali e delle piante |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Apr 2015 09:11 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2017 01:00 |
| URI: | http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/10154 |
| DOI: | 10.6092/UNINA/FEDOA/10154 |
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The present research activity has been carried out in a major commercial poultry slaughter plant. A first aim of the work was to obtain improved animal welfare conditions through the optimization of the stunning procedure. Studies and experimental tests were carried out in order to find an optimal setting of electrical parameters to maximize the number of unconscious birds. The influence of the electrical stunning process in both carcass and meat quality was another object of the present thesis. In particular, the effect of different combinations of electrical stunning parameters (i.e. frequency and current levels) on the occurrence of haemorrhagic lesions has been investigated. The slaughter plant was also used as an epidemiological lab to investigate on the incidence and nature of myopathies, degenerations and other abnormalities that frequently affect carcasses and meat of broiler chickens.
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