Fact sheets: Techno-economic assessment of emission-reduction pathways for the Australian chicken meat industry
Explore chicken meat emission pathways to 2050, with costs, feasibility and offsets across net zero, SBTi and floating targets.
CHICKEN MEAT
Evaluating Risks Posed by Pathogen Emissions from Meat Chicken Sheds
167 pages
Published: 21 Sep 2010
Author(s): P.J. Blackall, H.N. Chinivasagam, Z. Ristovski
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Pathogen and dust emissions in exhaust plumes from meat chicken sheds and the potential for disease and disease transmission to humans are increasingly raised as issues of concern when considering the sustainability and impact of the chicken meat industry.
This RIRDC report describes research to produce the first Australian based data on the levels of bacteria (both normal harmless bacteria as well as pathogenic bacteria). As well, the project involved research to produce the first data on the dust emission rates from Australian meat chicken production facilities.
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