Roberts Hester, de Jager Linda, Blight Geoffrey
School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa.
Waste Manag Res. 2009 Feb;27(1):25-30. doi: 10.1177/0734242X07085754.
Abattoir waste disposal must be carefully managed because the wastes can be a source of food-borne diseases (Nemerow & Dasgupta Industrial and Hazardous Waste Treatment, p. 284, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1991; Bradshaw et al. The Treatment and Handling of Wastes, p. 183, The Royal Society, Chapman & Hall, London, 1992). Disposal of food that has been condemned because it is known to be diseased is of particular concern, and this paper looks at current disposal methods for such waste in the light of new scientific developments and waste-management strategies. Questionnaires were presented to management and workers at low- and high-throughput red meat abattoirs in the Free State Province, South Africa to determine current waste-handling procedures for condemned products. The waste-handling practices, almost without exception, did not fully comply with the requirements of the South African Red Meat Regulations of 2004, framed under the Meat Safety Act (Act 40 of 2000). The survey highlighted the need to improve current waste-handling strategies to prevent condemned products from re-entering the food chain and contributing to environmental pollution.
屠宰场的废物处理必须谨慎管理，因为这些废物可能成为食源性疾病的源头（内梅罗和达斯古普塔《工业与危险废物处理》，第284页，范诺斯特兰德·莱因霍尔德出版社，纽约，1991年；布拉德肖等人《废物的处理与管理》，第183页，皇家学会，查普曼与霍尔出版社，伦敦，1992年）。对已知患病而被判定不合格的食品进行处理尤其令人关注，本文根据新的科学进展和废物管理策略，审视了此类废物目前的处理方法。向南非自由邦省低产量和高产量红肉屠宰场的管理人员和工人发放了调查问卷，以确定目前对不合格产品的废物处理程序。几乎无一例外，这些废物处理做法均未完全符合2004年根据《肉类安全法》（2000年第40号法案）制定的南非红肉法规的要求。该调查强调，有必要改进当前的废物处理策略，以防止不合格产品重新进入食物链并造成环境污染。
