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Journal Article
A Preliminary Microbiological Assessment of Process Hygiene of Traditional Outdoor Camel Slaughter in Sahrawi Refugee Camps
2012
Overview
The aim of this study was to investigate the hygiene performance of a camel (Camelus dromedarius) slaughtering process as carried out with the traditional method in the Sahrawi refugee camps located in southwestern Algeria. The camel slaughtering process in this region differs significantly from that carried out in commercial abattoirs. Slaughtering is performed outdoors in desert areas, and dehiding of the carcass is approached via the dorsoventral route rather than the classic ventrodorsal route. Samples were taken from 10 camel carcasses from three different areas: the hide, the carcass meat immediately after dehiding, and the meat after final cutting. Enterobacteriaceae counts (EC) were enumerated employing conventional laboratory techniques. Carcass meat samples resulted in EC below the detection limit more frequently if the hide samples from the same carcass had also EC counts below the detection limit. Because of the low number of trials, the calculation of statistical significance of the results was not possible. Further experimental research is needed in order to validate the results presented in this study. The comparison of the microbiological hygiene performance between dorsal dehiding and traditional ventral dehiding of slaughtered animals could serve to validate the hypothesis of the potential positive impact of the dorsal dehiding method in carcass meat hygiene.
Publisher
International Association for Food Protection,Elsevier Limited
Subject
/ Abdomen
/ Algeria
/ Animals
/ Bacteria
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Camelids
/ camels
/ cutting
/ deserts
/ Enterobacteriaceae - isolation & purification
/ Euthanasia, Animal - methods
/ Food Contamination - analysis
/ Food Contamination - prevention & control
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Humans
/ Hygiene
/ Meat
/ Outdoors
/ Refugees
