date:Nov 12, 2012
damaged or contaminated birds coming off inspection lines.
McKelvey, who was in the poultry industry for 44 years and worked at the first U.S. plants to implement HIMP, says she noticed more birds with broken wings, feathers and fecal contamination making it through inspection after her plant switched over to HIMP.
After being examined, carcasses are put in a large chill tank, where they are brought down to a temperature of 40 degrees. Here, birds carrying infected scabs or fecal matter can co