Ozone Poultry Applications
Ozone Poultry applications from Faraday
Ozone is the perfect solution for the Poultry Industry for disinfecting, and sanitizing. Ozone in poultry destroys bacteria and eliminate odors. Also Ammonia concentrations in animal sheds can be reduced by ozone treatment.
Ozone can be used to destroy airborne bacteria and eliminate odors reduces the ammonia concentrations in animal sheds. Ozonated water in slaughterhouse helps in bacterial control of dead animals and environment. Spraying chilled ozonated water onto chicken meat will kill pathogens on the surface reducing the spoilage. Washing the slaughterhouse and equipments with ozonated water reduces the potential for dangerous bacteria outbreak.
Advantages of Ozone in Poultry
- Ozone being a powerful oxidant kills micro organisms on the surface of meat and equipment.
- Ozone is much more effective than other disinfecting systems such as chemical fogging and UV light.
- Tests on E. coli, L.Pneuniophila, Stapharaeus, MRSA, Shigella sp and Salmonella arizonae show that ozone gas is a highly anti-bacterial agent, with more than 90% kill rates after 40 minutes, 99.9% kill rates after 60 minutes and 100% kill rates after 2 hours.
- using ozonated water to wash carcasses results in no significant loss of colour or of flavour.
- The use of ozone during refrigerated storage of poultry has a pronounced effect on flora causing deteriorations and consequently prolongs the useful life of poultry in the refrigerated storage.
- Evidence shows that strains of Staphylococcus Aureus colonise on defeathering machinery have become endemic with poultry processing plants, and become resistant to normal cleaning and disinfecting, including chlorine.(No resistance build-up to ozone)