Evaluation Of Chilled Goat Carcass Quality Along The Cold Chain Loaded From Two Export Abattoirs In Ethiopia

The study was conducted to determine factors that affect meat quality during storage, loading, transport, unloading and microbial quality of the goat carcasses slaughtered in two export abattoirs in Modjo, Ethiopia. A total of 224 samples were selected randomly from the two export abattoirs to determine the carcass temperature, pH and coliform bacterial count. 111 and 113 goat carcass was selected from the first and second export abattoirs respectively. The log mean temperatures of carcass before loading were +0.55oC and -1.03oC and unloading were 0.091 and 0.960C for the first and second export abattoirs respectively. Independent t-test statistical analysis for mean of temperature readings from the two export abattoirs showed significant difference (P

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