Clostridium perfringens is a gram positive, rod shaped bacteria that is often associated with food poisoning and gas gangrene. C. perfringens is most frequently responsible for released toxins and enzymes that cause tissue damage. These conditions are known as anaerobic cellulitis, myonecrosis, or gas gangrene. Other clostridia that are occasionally responsible include C. novyi and C. septicum, and others on very rare occasions....
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Ever wondered how people manage to reach any kind of meaningful age without suffering a terrible and agonizing death due to an infection caused by some or the other strange and exotic bug?
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Is it just my imagination or are there a growing number of increasingly disillusioned business owners that have one thing in common - they all dabbled with small waste disposal processes that make use of proteolytic enzymes to digest animal carcasses and condemned abattoir waste tissue?...
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The much debated issue of slaughterhouse blood disposal is one that is all too familiar at abattoirs and water utilities alike. Bovine blood used to be one of the hottest commodities that an abattoir had to sell. Bovine blood is rich in protein, and was the preferred source of protein in animal feed mixtures until mad cow disease reared is ugly head back in the 90’s. ...
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What Is Bovine TuberculosisThis type of Tuberculosis is often found in South Africa and abattoirs, specifically quarantine abattoirs, may occasionally encounter animals infected with Bovine Tuberculosis. Proper disposal of carcasses and waste material from infected animals is therefore of great importance...
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MAAHP™ Tissue Processors

The new 2nd generation MAAHP™ tissue processor range has recently been launched in South Africa!

WRT's 2nd generation MAAHP™ Tissue Processors are highly specialized units - developed specifically for abattoirs and meat processing plants - that facilitate a thermo-chemical process by which all types of animal tissue can be broken down into a stable and completely pathogen free liquid with numerous useful applications.

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