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Keywords:
Beef industry / Fishery processing / Food industry and trade / Meat industry and trade / Poultry / Slaughtering and slaughter houses / Swine

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Cleaner Production Assessment in Meat Processing
Abstract: Focusing on cattle and pig abattoirs, this document is a thorough examination of the environmental impacts of meat processing, offering approaches industry and government can take to minimize those impacts.
Source: UNEP; COWI Consulting
URL: http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/24/23224.pdf

Development Document for the Proposed Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Industry Point Source Category (40 CFR 432)
Abstract: Complete documentation of proposed US EPA regulations to affect the meat processing industry, updating 1970s rules which sought to ensure the meat industry's compliance the Clean Water Act. Includes BATs and process descriptions.
Source: US EPA
URL: http://yosemite.epa.gov/water/owrccatalog.nsf/e673c95b11602f
2385256ae1007279fe/74625dbf4948d5f785256d83004fdb1a!Open
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Meat Packing Plants [PDF]
Abstract: This chapter describe the operations involved in beef processing, pork processing, and other meat processing.
Source: EPA
URL: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/ch09/final/c9s05-1.pdf

 

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The Topic Hub™ is a product of the Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx) The Meat Processing Topic Hub™ was developed by: Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange Contact email: abray@newmoa.org Hub Last Updated: 3/11/2008