MLA Newsletters

Access a range of newsletters and information sheets relating to co-products.

Fifth Quarter

MLA produces Fifth Quarter on a semi-regular basis that provides information relating to co-products and the co-products industry. Download previous issues of the newsletter:

• Fifth Quarter - July 2007
• Fifth Quarter - July 2006
• Fifth Quarter - February 2006
• Fifth Quarter - September 2005
• Fifth Quarter - December 2004
• Fifth Quarter - September 2004
• Fifth Quarter - June 2004
• Fifth Quarter - February 2004
• Fifth Quarter - September 2003
• Fifth Quarter - May 2003
• Fifth Quarter - January 2003
• Fifth Quarter - March 2002
• Fifth Quarter - November 2001

Novel Co-products from the Meat Industry

This series of information sheets was produced to give an overview of the range of co-product opportunities.

• Speciality meals
• Techniques for the separation of meat meal into its components
• Opportunities for high-ash meat meals as organic fertilisers
• Biogenic amines in meat meal
• Preparation of meat meal for inclusion in pet foods
• Nutritive specifications of meat-meal-based aquaculture diets
• Preparation of bone stock
• Recovery of specific proteins and enzymes from blood and offal Part 1: Aprotinin, transglutaminase, fibronectin and related proteins
• Recovery of specific proteins and enzymes from blood and offal Part 2: Growth factors
• Stickwater recovery
• Edible collagen films 
• Bovine collagen isinglass
• Manufacture of bovine serum albumin
• Edible meat powders and extracts
• Restructured meat using bovine plasma products
• Isolated muscle protein IMP manufacture
• Potential uses for the by-products of IMP production

Rendering

• Blood recovery
• Cleaning of a rendering plant
• Environmental control in the rendering industry
• Heat treatments to control micro-organisms in meat meal
• Importing country requirements for meat and bone meal
• Meat and bone meal
• Novel rendering technology
• Preparation of raw materials
• Prevention of post processing contamination of stock meal
• Quality assurance for rendered product
• Rendering systems
• Rendering yields
• Tallow washing and storage
• Tallow

Skin Adivisory Kit

The following series of information sheets covers a range of areas on the processing and uses for hides and skins.

• Farm Management for improved woolskin properties
• Prevention of strain damage
• Skin identification and supply chain communication
• Raw skin marketing
• Raw skin sales and specification
• Preservation of sheepskins and lambskins
• Utilisation of waste skin from sheep and lamb production
• Fellmongering in Australia
• Improved pelt production and processing
• An approach to rapid processing of skins
• Effluent reduction in sheepskin and lambskin processing
• The environmental safety of trivalent and hexavalent chromium
• Merino leather quality
• Australian medical sheepskins
• Merino leather products

Meat Technolgy Updates

The following Meat Technolgy Updates cover topics related to co-products.

• Bioactives, nutraceuticals and functional foods October 2008
• Tracking rendering costs. June 2007
• Meat and bone meal November 2006
• Cleaning of a rendering plant November 2006
• Rendering systems November 2006
• Rendering November 2006
• Validation of rendering processes October 2005
• Blood products. October 2003
• Optimising blood collection August 2003
• Increased blood collection from lamb carcases. June 2003
• Tallow as a heating fuel. September 2002
• Short-term preservation of hides and skins. June 1998
• Tallow. 1997