Denmark's market news service Borsen reports calculations that pig processors Danish Crown and Tican, which account for 90% of all slaughtering nationally, could save up to €7M per year by employing CAT scans of carcasses. A CAT scan is produced by passing the slaughtered pig through a tunnel-like device in which it can be X-rayed multiple times to generate a computerized image of its internal composition. The cross-sectional scanning of each animal in the slaughterhouse is being proposed in Denmark as allowing a better selection of pigs for certain markets and better assessments of how to cut each carcass for optimized end products.
Savings from scanning
CAT scans improve butchering
January 25, 2010
