EGGSHELL RECOVERY AT AVICOLA BALLESTER
Avícola Ballester at the cutting edge of innovation, installs an eggshell recovery process in one of his egg production centres.
With the installation of this system, developed and patented by Ingeniería Avícola, Avícola Ballester is a benchmark in the management of by-products from egg processing centres. With a shell drying capacity of 80,000 eggs/hour, Avícola Ballester not only manages the by-product “shell” responsibly, but also takes advantage of it by adding value and obtaining a new product suitable for the following uses:
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- Use of the dried eggshell:
Raw material for feeding:
- Farm animals including hens.
- Pets.
Fertilisers and soil improvers
- Microbiological analysis of dried eggshell:
|
Parameter |
Mét. Analysis |
Result |
Parametric Value |
|
Salmonella |
IT-PR-112 |
Not detected in 25 g |
Absence/25 g |
|
Enterobacteriaceae |
IT-PR-113 |
200 ufc/g |
10-299 ufc/g |
This process can be complemented treating also eggs unfit for human consumption.
The product obtained after processing this type of egg is a dehydrated egg with a very interesting composition for animal food production.
