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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:06:14 +0200

Denaturing Abattoir Waste Tissue The South African Meat Safety Act of 2000 outlines very specific methods that are to be used when disposing of condemned abattoir waste. The four methods are: Denaturing prior to burial deeper than 600mm below ground...
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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:41:51 +0200

Introduction There has been a lot of talk lately about the effectiveness of anaerobic digestion as a disposal method for abattoir waste streams. The principle of turning abattoir waste streams into electricity, fertilizer and hot water is certainly attractive and provided that disease control can be effectively incorporated into this process, it is difficult to find a more suitable and comprehensive way to dispose of the total waste stream generated by abattoirs on a daily basis....
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Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:36:06 +0200

What are prions? The word prion was coined in 1982 by neurologist Dr Stanley Prusiner, and is used to describe a proteinaceous infectious agent that is not inactivated or destroyed by procedures that modify nucleic acids such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleicacid (RNA)...
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Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:04:05 +0200

MAD COW DISEASE ALSO KNOWN AS BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY IN CATTLE (BSE) OR CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE (CJD) IN HUMANS ARE DISEASES CAUSED BY PRIONS BSE (sometimes referred to as "mad cow disease
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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:21:33 +0200

Project Title : Development of a cost effective, pathogen free and environmentally friendly treatment / recycling method for condemned meat products and specific risk material at abattoirs. ...
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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:34:32 +0200

The traditional approach to mortality composting does not provide acceptable pathogen reduction capabilities when dealing with Specific Risk Material Composting by its very nature is not a very homogenous process and for this reason com...
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Monday September 06, 2010

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Convertech can supply a wide variety of pure culture inoculums such as Trichoderma Harzanium that is used in agricultural applications to increase plant growth...

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