Editing Disembowelment (section)

==Dressing of animals==
[[Image:Field dressing a deer.jpg|thumb|[[Deer hunting|Deer hunter]] in the state of Michigan in the [[United States]] [[Field dressing (hunting)|field-dressing]] a [[deer]]]]
[[File:1041Men cleaning, dressing, gutting and cutting chickens in the Philippines 09.jpg|thumb|Men cleaning, dressing, gutting and cutting chickens in the [[Philippines]]]]
The removal of internal organs is a typical operation in meat processing also known as '''dressing'''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wilkanowska |first1=Anna |last2=Kokoszyński |first2=Dariusz |title=COMPARISON OF SLAUGHTER VALUE IN PHARAOH QUAIL OF DIFFERENT AGES |journal=Journal of Central European Agriculture |date=19 July 2011 |doi=10.5513/jcea.v12i1.943 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/jcea/article/view/943 |language=en |issn=1332-9049}}</ref> Land animals and birds are typically killed and bled before the dressing. The process of dressing includes the removal of heart, liver and lungs ([[offal|pluck]]) as well as disembowelment by an abdominal cut.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Swanenburg |first1=M |last2=Urlings |first2=H. A. P |last3=Snijders |first3=J. M. A |last4=Keuzenkamp |first4=D. A |last5=van Knapen |first5=F |title=Salmonella in slaughter pigs: prevalence, serotypes and critical control points during slaughter in two slaughterhouses |journal=International Journal of Food Microbiology |date=8 November 2001 |volume=70 |issue=3 |pages=243–254 |doi=10.1016/S0168-1605(01)00545-1 |pmid=11764190 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168160501005451 |language=en |issn=0168-1605|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Disembowelment is typically accompanied by '''bung dropping''' or '''bunging'''.<ref name=sedu>{{cite web |title=At-Home Hog Slaughter |url=https://extension.sdstate.edu/home-hog-slaughter |website=extension.sdstate.edu |access-date=15 August 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Bung dropping is the circumcision of the [[rectum]] from the carcass and is the first step of the gutting.<ref name=sedu/> Puncturing of bowels are avoided during the evisceration. Otherwise, bacteria from the intestinal contents might spread over the carcass.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Van Ba |first1=Hoa |last2=Seo |first2=Hyun-Woo |last3=Seong |first3=Pil-Nam |last4=Kang |first4=Sun-Moon |last5=Cho |first5=Soo-Huyn |last6=Kim |first6=Yoon-Seok |last7=Park |first7=Beom-Young |last8=Moon |first8=Sung-Sil |last9=Kang |first9=Se-Ju |last10=Choi |first10=Yong-Min |last11=Kim |first11=Jin-Hyoung |title=The fates of microbial populations on pig carcasses during slaughtering process, on retail cuts after slaughter, and intervention efficiency of lactic acid spraying |journal=International Journal of Food Microbiology |date=2 April 2019 |volume=294 |pages=10–17 |doi=10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2019.01.015 |pmid=30711888 |s2cid=73414634 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168160518306597 |issn=0168-1605|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In case of birds, the abdominal cut extends up to the [[cloaca]] separating it from the rest of the skin.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Engelbrecht, A. |title=Ostrich manual |date=2014 |publisher=Western Cape Department of Agriculture |page=74 |url=https://scholar.cu.edu.eg/wafaaabdelghany/files/book_50.pdf#page=74 |chapter=Slaughter-Bird Production And Product Quality.}}</ref> 

===Industrial dressing line===
{{anchor|bung dropper}}A '''bung dropper''' is a device used in [[slaughterhouses]] for fast bung dropping in a dressing line.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=de Medeiros Esper |first1=Ian |last2=From |first2=Pål J. |last3=Mason |first3=Alex |title=Robotisation and intelligent systems in abattoirs |journal=Trends in Food Science & Technology |date=1 February 2021 |volume=108 |pages=214–222 |doi=10.1016/j.tifs.2020.11.005 |s2cid=230599141 |language=en |issn=0924-2244|doi-access=free |hdl=11250/2828986 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> The probe of a bung dropper is inserted into the rectum to loosen it from the carcass by circumcising with a sharp rotating cylinder.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stijn |first1=Hofkens |title=The decontaminating effects of lactic acid on pig-associated Salmonella and Yersinia enterocolitica |date=2017 |publisher=Diss. Ghent University |url=https://libstore.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/002/349/742/RUG01-002349742_2017_0001_AC.pdf}}</ref> '''Belly opener''' is a device for performing the abdominal cut.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Crotta |first1=Matteo |last2=Luisi |first2=Elena |last3=Dadios |first3=Nikolaos |last4=Guitian |first4=Javier |title=Probabilistic modelling of events at evisceration during slaughtering of pigs using expert opinion: Quantitative data in support of stochastic models of risk of contamination |journal=Microbial Risk Analysis |date=1 April 2019 |volume=11 |pages=57–65 |doi=10.1016/j.mran.2018.10.001 |s2cid=125223101 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352352218300033 |language=en |issn=2352-3522}}</ref>