MEAT PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING PLANTS
cod. 1002055

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Impianti industriali meccanici (ING-IND/17)
Field
A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity
Student's choice
32 hours
of face-to-face activities
4 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

knowing the facilities and equipment for slaughtering and cutting the main species of livestock and how their design may affect the safety of foods of animal origin

Prerequisites

<ul>
<li>principles of microbiology</li>
<li>principles of food chemistry</li>
</ul>

Course unit content

<ul>
<li>non-specific requirements of the food industries</li>
<li>the design of the main types of meat processing plants, slaughterhouses (cattle, pigs, chickens) and meat cutting plants</li>
<li>laboratories for products of animal origin</li>
</ul>

Full programme

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Bibliography

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<li>Leo M.L. Nollet , Fidel Toldra “Advanced Technologies For Meat Processing” CRC; 1 edition (March 21, 2006). ISBN-13: 978-1574445879</li>
<li>Alan R. Sams “Poultry Meat Processing” CRC ISBN-13: 978-0849301209</li>
</ul>

Teaching methods

<ul>
<li>classroom lectures</li>
<li>exercitations in slaughterhouses and meat cutting plants</li>
<li>oral examination</li>
</ul>

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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