Title: Meat preservation methods
Course: Hygiene and Environmental Health Part 1 - Ethiopia (Full)

Meat preservation methods

As noted above, meat is highly perishable, so it must be preserved properly. One way of doing this is to chill the meat in a refrigerator. Temperatures for refrigeration of meat should be lower than the usually recommended 10^ºC and should be below 7^ºC for carcasses and below 3^ºC for offal. For long-term storage, meat should be frozen. However, since most rural people do not have a refrigerator or freezer, they should use traditional preserving methods.

You learned in Study Session 10 about some meat preservation methods used in rural communities in Ethiopia. What are they?

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Common methods are smoking, salting and drying to prepare quanta.