ABSTRACT
COSMIN MĂRCULESCU, GABRIELA IONESCU, SIMONA CIUTĂ, and CONSTANTIN STAN
9.1 INTRODUCTION
The meat processing industry generates meat and products for human consumption, and also considerable amounts of solid waste and other byproducts (skins, fats, bones, offal, etc.) [1, 2, 3]. A significant percentage from the animal remains after processing as waste: approximately 46% of each cow, 48 % of each sheep or goat, 38 % of each pig, 28 % of each chicken [4]. These by-products are a hard to use waste that is produced each year worldwide in millions of tons [5]. The most common method adopted by the meat processing industry to dispose of animal waste is the processing into a meat and bone meal [6].
