Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V. products

When Meyn developed its new multistage CO2 stunning system, a co-development with Praxair Inc., a lot of attention was given to animal welfare. As the birds remain in the drawer or container during stunning, the handling and transport of active birds is completely eliminated. This largely reduces handling stress and thus risk on injuries to the birds. The closed cabinet construction allows for the CO2 concentration to be managed perfectly in every stage of the process. This ensures a humane stun and greatly improves product quality. The Meyn multistage CO2 stunning system forms an integral part of the Meyn live bird handling systems. Both new as well as existing configurations can be extended with this innovative stunning system.

Live bird handling, from farm to processing line, has a significant influence on quality and yield. Careful live bird handling optimizes both animal welfare and profits, and the Grande drawer system is developed with that perspective in mind.

A Meyn water bath stunner uses electricity to stun poultry, which is essential for the effectiveness of the future kill and bleed out processes, and of course for animal welfare. Meyn can provide a conventional water bath stunner or a High Frequency Quest stunner, for all customer and geographical requests.

The scalding stage is required to loosen feather follicles in preparation for mechanical plucking. In some slaughterhouses, it is also used as a preparation for removal of the epidermis. Scalding also has a key part in removing pollution from the bird to prevent cross contamination of bacteria.