Slaughterhouse Industry
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Industry Study
Project Description
Basic Project Information
Project Location
Project Rationale
Alternative
Description of Project Phases
Baseline Environment Condition
Impact Assessment and Mitigation
Environment Management Plan
Proposal for an Environmental Monitoring and Guarantee Fund
Attachment of Annexes
Photos or Plates of Proposed Project
Impact Areas, Affected and Communities
Maps of the following Scale
Permit to Operate Certificate
E. Result of Physical and Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastewater
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Davao City slaughterhouse is located at Ma-a, Davao City. The operations are limited to the night shift. The delivery of animals will start at 1:00 to 4:30 in the afternoon. The whole morning will be utilized for cleaning the area. The 2nd shift will start at 9:00 in the evening up to 5:30 in the morning.
It employs 48 workers of which 25 are regulars and 23 are contractual. This contractual will do the maintenance and the manual slaughtering of animals.
Currently the number of hogs, cattles and other animals slaughtered are as follows
200 to 250 heads
Cattle
30 to 40 heads
Chicken
none ( chicken slaughterhouse is out of order)
20 to 25 heads
The number of heads slaughtered everyday does not level of with the number of kilos meat sold in the public market. In short there are hogs and cattle slaughtered privately.
The following are the charges per head for the service rendered:
P91.11 per head
Cattle
P152 per head
P40.00 per head
There are two stockyards presently existing in the city slaughterhouse. One is for the hogs and the other is for the large cattle. Three operational ponds are present in the slaughterhouse, the aerobic pond, anaerobic pond, and the facultative pond. And sludge drying bed.
As what we have observed there are two ways of acquiring water for use of slaughtering and maintenance of the slaughterhouse. One is the metered water system direct from the meter to the faucet and the use of water reservoir. Two large overhead tanks are place serve as water reservoir use for slaughtering and the metered water system is for office consumption.
Basic Project Information
Project Name:
Davao City Slaughterhouse
Address: Ma-a Davao City
Contact Person: Ariel Cascabel
Officer in charge
The number of hogs and cattle slaughtered for the year 2004 dropped compared to past years due to the economic crisis.
Ma-a slaughterhouse operation generally involves the following:
Lairage
Stunning
Hoisting
Bleeding
Scalding
Dehairing
Gambrelling
Final Scrapping
Evisceration
Inspection
Splitting
Weighing
To Offal Room
Offal Cleaning
Delivery
Before the animals are slaughtered they are kept in the stockyard for 2 days and are not allowed to eat. However, they are allowed to drink water. Normally, the weight of the hogs brought range from 45 to 75 kilograms. The average weight for cattle is 300 kilograms.
Slaughtering starts with bringing the animals from a narrow path way from the stockyard to the kill floor area. Then proceed to showering/bathing. Afterwards, the animals are stunned, hoist and bleed. Blood pails are provided with control numbers. Blood containment shall depend on the desire of the owners of the animals. The animals are then placed in a scalding vat for 3 minutes. If the animals are oversized, the Dehairing machine shall not be used. A table for manual scrapping is provided. After the scrapping and dehairing process follows the gambrelling process, toe removal, and final scrapping, then the evisceration process. The butcher carefully removes the viscera or entrails while preventing accidental puncture or the intestinal tract. The eviscerated carcass and entrails are cleaned separately to prevent contamination of the carcass. The meats are then inspected by the National meat Inspector Commission and seal it certifying its approval. The animals are then split and weighed and shall be brought to the offal room. The offals shall be carried ( hand ) through the maintenance of the Offal Manager to the Offal cleaning table. Guided by the board tally, the Offal manager shall assign particular offal to particular table. The cleaned shall be placed in a pre-numbered pan. The pan to be used for particular offal shall bear the number of animals. And lastly, is the delivery of the animals.
The operation in Ma-a slaughterhouse generates wastes of different