The quality process of our products begins with the choice of animals that we slaughter. Our producers, in addition to being great partners, are a reference in the creation of meat animals, reflecting in excellent carcass finish and meat quality. We also work with slaughter for third parties, in which our partners bring their animals and subsequently resell the carcasses under their own brand. These partners also work with the best raw materials on the market.

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The process of evaluating the animals is meticulous and follows the steps required by the SIF, starting with the descent of the trucks and leading the animals to the corrals. Any diagnosed pathology is reflected in the segregation of the animal and its conduction to the Federal Inspection's observation corral, where it will undergo more specific analyzes until its final diagnosis.

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The analysis process is meticulous and follows the steps required by the SIF. Starting with the descent of the truck and how the animal behaves during the journey. In case of any abnormality pointed out, the animal is taken to the observation corral of the Federal Inspection, where it will undergo more specific analyzes until its approval for slaughter or rejection.

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After finalizing the reception of the animals, the trucks are taken to our sanitation sector, where they are washed and disinfected. Only after this procedure are they released for output.

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Accommodated in the corrals by lots, preserving their well-being, the animals receive an exclusively water diet until they are taken to the pre-slaughter sprinkler corrals.

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Forwarded to the stun box, the animals are contained and stunned in a maximum of 40 seconds, then they are hoisted and made available for bleeding in a maximum of 1 minute. After that, bleeding (section of the great vessels in the neck and heart) is performed. The other processes are carried out after a minimum time of 3 minutes, ensuring maximum blood depletion and the actual death of the animals.

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During the skinning process, employees work as recommended for each stage, always changing knives and washing hands, avoiding contact between the carcasses and cross contamination between them. In this process, the inspection of paws and retromammary takes place.

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In order to guarantee the health of the products, the carcasses undergo several inspection lines, carried out by highly trained professionals: LINE A: Feet examination (in exporting establishments); LINE B: Examination of the head-tongue set; LINE C: Dental chronology (optional); LINE D: Examination of the gastrointestinal tract and spleen, pancreas, urinary vesicle and uterus; LINE E: Liver examination; LINE F: Lung and heart exams; LINE G: Examination of the kidneys; LINE H: Examination of the external and internal sides of the caudal part of the carcass and corresponding lymph nodes; LINE I: Examination of the external and internal sides of the cranial part of the carcass and pre-scapular lymph nodes.

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After being inspected, the carcasses go through a final cleaning, which consists of removing excess fat, tallow and any other imperfection found in the carcasses. After cleaning, the carcasses undergo monitoring by the PCC (Critical Control Point), where they are evaluated for their innocuousness.

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After the PCC, the carcasses are weighed and receive the inspection stamp from the Ministry of Agriculture, validity, origin and traceability. Afterwards, the carcasses are washed with jets of drinking water at high pressure, and subsequently taken to the cooling chambers, where they can only be removed after reaching 7oC of temperature inside their musculature.

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In this process, the giblets are separated and cleaned. Then, they are packaged and sent to the freezing sector.

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At this stage, the boning and cutting of the cooled carcasses takes place, having two purposes: to be divided into smaller portions for sale or to be processed into by-products. Our deboning follows the quality team's self-control programs, where the detachment, cleaning, trimming and packaging of all the pieces are followed, ensuring a quality product and excellence in the market.

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The rendering plant performs the activity of processing the by-products resulting from the slaughter and deboning process, and may receive by-products from third-party butchers. The by-product of slaughtering and deboning is rich in proteins, calcium, minerals and others. In the rendering plant, Beef Meal and Bovine Bones are produced, used as raw material for the production of animal feed (except ruminants), and tallow, which is the primary material for the production of soaps, biodiesel and a multitude of other products.

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