Beef
What is the highest quality grade?
Prime
What is the final step of processing for poultry?
Packaging
How many laying birds are in the United States?
235 million
What does AMS stand for?
Agricultural and Marketing Service
What year was "The Humane Slaughter Act" first started?
1960
What does USDA stand for?
United States Department of Agriculture
What does deboning mean?
Removal of bone from meat.
How many eggs does each bird lay every year?
250 to 300 eggs a year
What does rigor mortis mean?
One of the changes after slaughter, the contraction and stiffening of muscle.
What does electrical stimulation mean?
Brief exposure to high voltage electrical current to improve tenderness of many cuts of the beef carcass; used before slaughter of animals to render unconscious.
What does FSI stand for?
Food Safety and Inspection Service
What is integrated?
A system in which the components are interconnected to perform a function.
What is the color of the yolk?
The yolk color depends on the diet of the hen.
What does eviscerated mean?
Removal of the internal organs.
What does vitelline membrane mean?
The covering of the yolk of an egg.
What is a by-product?
A by-product is a secondary or incidental products from a manufacturing process.
What is the first step of processing for poultry?
Spot inspection of each lot of birds before slaughter.
What is the air cell in an egg?
The air cell is the empty space between the white and shell at the large end of the egg.
What is processed meat?
Combined with other spices and additives to form a new product such as hot dogs, sausage, bologna, and jerky.
What does myoglobin mean?
The name of the protein that is the primary color pigment of meat.
What is yield grade?
Classifies carcasses on the basis of the proportion of usable meat to bone and fat, and are used in conjunction with quality.
What does mechanically separated mean?
Separation of bone from meat using automated equipment.
What is Julian date?
A number- 1 through 365- indicating day of the year.
What does offal mean?
All part of a carcass that are considered by-product, suck as feet, tongue, hide, and so on.
What does albumen mean?