Electrical Stunning of Broilers - Basic Concepts and Carcass Quality Implications: A Review
Open Access
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Applied Poultry Research
- Vol. 1 (1) , 135-146
- https://doi.org/10.1093/japr/1.1.135
Abstract
Electrical stunning continues to be the method of choice for immobilizing broilers prior to slaughter. Recent research as well as personal observations in commercial broiler processing plants indicate a rather broad spectrum of ideas, concepts and approaches to stunning broilers with electrical currents. Basic concepts of electricity, electrical circuits and the physiology of electrical stunning are reviewed in parallel with current research data. Maintenance of humane slaughter conditions and carcass quality attributes of broilers require integration and application of this knowledge in modern-day processing plants.Keywords
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