Abstract
SummaryIn India the losses incurred due to improper utilization of slaughterhouse byproducts are of the order of Rs30 million annually (Moorjani, 1971). Absence of facilities in slaughterhouses, scattered slaughtering, general ignorance and lack of interest among people have been responsible for the under‐utilization of blood and other slaughterhouse by‐products thus resulting in the loss of valuable proteins and other useful substances.There are few microbiological studies on blood meal although several workers have determined its nutritive value and recommended blood meal as livestock and poultry feed supplement (Fratzer & Green, 1957; Ali & Momin, 1964). Recently Patgiri & Arora (1976) examined the microbial load and chemical quality of various slaughterhouse by‐products including blood meal. Further, these workers have also determined the most probable number of coliforms and Escherichia coli in blood meal samples and reported characterization of E. coli organisms isolated from them (Patgiri & Arora, 1977).Keeping in view the importance of blood meal in supplementing the proteinaceous foods, the present study was undertaken to determine the microbial load in blood meal samples prepared by two different methods.
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