Unmarketable animal tissues are typically processed by rendering plants, which transform them into meat and bone meal (MBM) or similar products. MBM’s traditional use as animal feed has become increasingly threatened, but MBM has potential for non-feed applications. Development of new products and processes is hindered by lack of reliable data on many of MBM’s chemical and physical properties. ...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, first identified in the UK in 1986, may have arisen from feeding scrapie infected meat-and-bone meal (MBM) to cattle that was produced under sub-optimal conditions. For public health and disease prevention reasons, banning the application of MBM in ruminant’s feeds was necessary. This study utilized a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to identify bovine, po...

We conducted experiments to determine amino acid (AA) digestibility of nine animal by-product meals using precision-fed cecectomized roosters and ileally cannulated dogs. The products initially evaluated in roosters were meat and bone meals (MBM) containing 24 or 34% ash, poultry by-product meals (PBP) containing 7 or 16% ash, lamb meals (LM) containing 15 or 24% ash, a LM analog containing a m...

A possible involvement of inhibitory effects of monobromobimane (MBM), a thiol reagent, on the swelling and the release of cytochrome c in the isolated brain mitochondria was examined. MBM dose-dependently inhibited the calcium and phenylarsineoxide-induced mitochondrial swelling and cytochrome c release. Significant relationships between mitochondrial swelling and cytochrome c release were det...

BACKGROUND Government-imposed feed bans have created a need for new applications for meat & bone meal (MBM). Many potential new applications require MBM protein to be both soluble and free of infectious prion. Treatment with protease is generally effective in reducing insoluble, thermally-denatured proteins to soluble peptides. It has been reported in the literature that certain proteases, incl...

An intercomparison study was conducted to determine the presence of processed animal proteins (PAPs), including meat and bone meal (MBM) from various species, in animal feed. The performances of different methods, such as microscopy, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), immunoassays, and a protocol based on iquid chromatography (LC), were compared. Laboratories were asked to analyze for PAPs from a...

A sensitive and reproducible enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using two monoclonal antibodies directed against a synthetic peptide with an amino-acid sequence related to the C-terminus of bovine myoglobin and the whole molecule of sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS)-denatured bovine myoglobin was adapted for detecting bovine myoglobin in contaminated feeds. The ELISA employed bovine meat ext...

In situ and digestion studies were conducted to evaluate feather meal (FTH), blood meal (BM), and meat and bone meal (MBM) for escape protein content, amino acid composition of the escape protein, true protein digestibility, and digestibility of the individual amino acids. Following 12 h of ruminal incubation, escape protein values were 73.5, 92.4, and 60.8% of CP for FTH, BM, and MBM, respecti...

Meat and bone meal (MBM) ash was characterized used for phosphate wastewater treatment phosphorus recovery. The bottom (MBM-BA) with size >250 µm accounted ~80% distributed evenly in the >1000 µm, 500–1000 250–500 fractions, while air pollution control residue (MBM-APCr) among 125–250 <125 fractions. P content ranged 7.9–15.6% depending on particle size, MBM-BA (14.33%) higher than MBM-APCr (9....

amino acid (aa) content of six meat and bone meal (mbm) samples was determined by ion-exchange chromatography. true aa digestibility of amino acids were determined of using precise sibbald&apos;s feeding method. metionin and lucien, with averages of 0.35 and 2.29 percent, had the lowest and highest values among essential aa of mbm samples. average content of individual aa, sum of essential and ...