Products of the Meat Processing Industry

The meat processing sector produces a wide range of products.

Abattoirs produce:

• whole carcases
• forequarters and hindquarters of beef
• legs, middles and shoulders of pork
• trunks and legs of lamb and mutton
• edible offal such as hearts, kidneys, livers and brains
• hides and pelts for making leather
• rendered or cooked meat waste, used to produce stock feed, fertiliser and tallow.

Boning rooms produce:

• bone in products like racks of lamb, T-bones and spare ribs
• boned products like fillet, rump and topside.