ABSTRACT
Meat animal by-products are produced by several different entities in the food industry-slaughterhouses, meat processors, fabricators (both wholesale and retail), and rendering plants.
The red meat industry in the United States defines a by-product as everything except the carcass that comes from an animal (cattle, sheep, swine, and goat). Animal by-products can be classified as edible or inedible, and are often referred to as “offal.”
