By-Products

 Category

 Example

 Utilisation

 Meat by products

 Blood, lungs, heart, kidney,
 brains, spleen and tripe
 (intestines)

 ·  Eaten as a delicacy by humans

 ·  Medications, due to the high content
    of amino acids, hormones, minerals,
    vitamins, and fatty acids.

 Ears and feet

 ·  Collagen and starch products

 Blood

 Blood and blood plasma

 ·  Blood sausages, blood meal, fertilizers,
     feedstuffs and binders.

 ·  Blood plasma is colourless and used in food
    as an emulsifier, replacing egg white.

 ·  Medication and pharmaceuticals.

 Hides and skins

 Cattle hides and sheep skin

 ·  Leather tanneries (up to 30% of the
    value of the animal), for leather
    products.

 · Gelatine in food, pharmaceutical and
    cosmetic industries

 ·  Dried pet food

 Bones

 Carcass bones from deboned meat

 ·  Marrow is used as a food

 ·  Provides gelatine for soups

 ·  Bone meal

 ·  Pet food

 Glands and organs

 Gall bladder, testicles, pancreas,
 fat glands, brains, liver, lungs, 
 pituitary,thyroid, pancreas,
 stomach, parathyroid, adrenal,
 kidney, corpus luteum, ovary
 and follicle

 ·  Food due to special taste and
    structure

 ·  Medicinal and pharmaceutical use

 ·  Progesterone and oestrogen  
    production

 ·  catgut, to make internal surgical
     sutures

 ·  Sausage casings

 Fat

 Tallow (hard fat rendered from the
  fatty tissues of cattle or sheep), and

 Lard (the fat rendered from the clean
  tissues of healthy pigs)

 ·  Edible fats

 ·  Deep frying

 ·  Margarine

 ·  Used in sausage and emulsified
    (minced) products