An abattoir is the premise approved and registered as premises for slaughtering animals for human food.
Fasting is withholding feed from an animal before slaughter but providing a lavish amount of water.
A fresh pork carcass is a pork carcass from newly slaughtered swine that has not undergone chilling, freezing, or processing treatment.
Pigs have been bred for intensive breeding to produce meat best suited for specific meat products.
Curing is the addition of salt with or without nitrate, nitrite, and sugar to lengthen shelf-life and enhance the development of odor, color, and flavor.
Fabrication is the process of cutting carcasses into standard wholesale and retail cuts.
Carcass evaluation is the assessment of the value of an animal.
A brand is any mark or stamp approved by the controlling authority and includes any tag or label bearing such mark or stamp.
Fresh meat is a meat that has not undergone any substantial physical, chemical, and microbiological changes from the time of slaughter.
A carcass is the body of any slaughtered animal after bleeding and dressing.
A cover pickle is a solution to cure ham.
A downer is a crippled or weakened animal unable to stand or showing abnormal locomotion and shall be treated as a suspect.
An emulsion is a multiple-phase system consisting of a dispersion of solids in a liquid where distribution is not entirely homogeneous.
A boar carcass is the carcass of an uncastrated male swine.
Comminution is the cutting of meat into small particles.
Edible by-product is any clean, sound, and properly dressed part other than meat, also known as meat by-products.
Conformation is the form, shape, or general outline of the side or whole carcass.
Deep freezing is freezing products at a temperature of -20F or lower.
Ascorbates are chemicals of the vitamin C family used to speed the formation of cure color and prevent fading.