Processing of Meat and Poultry Sample Clauses

Processing of Meat and Poultry. The Director of the Ukrainian Meat Producers Association in formed the assessment team that, in Ukraine, there are more than one thousand small meat plants producing less than one thousand kilograms per day. Up to fifty percent of this meat is consumed without passing through an officially documented marketing channel. There are approximately thirty plants that produce more than one thousand kilograms per day. These plants are mostly xxxxxxxxx and processing plants, although World Lab staff stated that about seventy percent of the meat consumed in Ukraine has not been processed as a value-added or sausage product. One plant near Kiev was capable of producing ninety tons of meat per day, but currently is producing thirty-six thousand tons of sausage, seven thousand tons of value-added products, and three thousand tons of canned meat annually. The Director of the Kiev Meat Processing Plant stated that four of the plants in the Kiev area have total xxxxxxxxx capacity in excess of thirty thousand head per day. There are five large plants in the Vinnitsa area. According to one of them, VinnitsaMeat, they have a combined capacity of more than eighty thousand tons per year. Pork is the most highly consumed meat, with little beef or lamb consumption due to livestock supplies (Xxx Xxxxxx of Kiev-Atlantic).