Processing Pork
With some processors butchering, dressing and packaging several thousand hogs per day, one has to believe that a lot of pork is marketed and sold each business day across our nation. Sausage, ham and those wonderful German pork roasts my grandma prepared. U-m-m-m! Problems with contamination arise daily amongst pork producers. New Critical Control Points are thrown at the pork industry at a staggering rate. And, how well do we identify those points in processing that could clearly be declared a danger in causing illness to the consumer?
With today's sensitivity to costs, the competition breathing down your financial neck and the willingness of the media to eagerly report commodity contamination recalls, you need all the help you can get! Can there be a remedy to those statistical happenings in your operation, where danger lurks in the form of "bad bug" contamination? AgSCAN believes that it can provide its new service, X-Radiation Processing to your firm and eliminate most of those bad bugs that have become fellow travelers in your commodities.
Economically speaking, if one were to perform microbiological tests on samples from total production at a cost of 5 cents per pound for the total weight processed, and AgSCAN told you that it could process all of your pork products for nearly 3 cents per pound, then you certainly would contact us to find out more, or have a lot to explain to your controller. Also, AgSCAN will help you with any special packaging that may be required for our process, such as MAP.
Keeping Clean
Anyone who has been around pig farming knows that pigs wallow in water that has unknown contents. Usually just mud with some fecal matter added by the pigs. And, having been there, you never forget the stench. Auugh!
Let's look at an example; A big, integrated process facility set in the countryside of a Midwestern state with a pig population running into the tens of thousands. Pigs eat but never overeat. And, there are wastes that must be handled from pigs and the butchering process itself. And, the EPA doesn't allow spreading it onto your property thanks to the Clean Water Act mandates.
This waste must be dealt with in a manner such as to not contaminate nearby local streams and the ground waters. The EPA monitors your every effort and responds to complaints of waste escaping from the process lagoons and into a nearby streams. Moreover, these lagoons stink. In addition, neighbors to this operation are constantly complaining of the smell. No technique has been uncovered that would effectively remove or sufficiently lower the odor level to something that everyone could live with. You are desperately looking for a solution.
TA DA! Today you come across this website of a new California company named AgSCAN, and learn that its
new waste recycling technology could be used to process your animal wastes. You contract to have AgSCAN suck up your waste into a vacuum tanker which brings it to AgSCAN. Then, the process begins where Nitrogen and Phosphorus are removed from the waste, liquid separated from the remaining solids which are then dried and bagged while the clear water is X-Radiated to kill all bacteria, etc, and sold back to the local irrigation district. The hydrous nitrogen and phosphorous is sold to a fertilizer company and the remaining bagged solids sold to cotton growers and other farmers. Ordinarily, AgSCAN would be most interested in scanning your finished product to eliminate foodbome pathogens. However, business is business, and AgSCAN can treat your waste material too. Talk about integrated processing and good agronomics!
Good slop!
AgSCAN can also process pig feeds to get rid of foodborne pathogens before the pig has its lunch. This could be effective for reducing epidemics in the pig population, and greatly improve food safety of your products. With AgSCAN on your team, costs are down and production is up, the neighbors happy and good things are done to protect our environment. And those folks driving the highway that passes your farm will think they have lost their way when they can't smell you at the point in which you should be noticed by that old, but now lost smell. Sniff, sniff! Must have missed that exit back there.
AgSCAN is waiting to assist you in any manner suited to your needs.
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