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Argentina is the 7th country where the latest generation of the Fat-O-Meat'er obtains an official national approval. The Argentine slaughterhouses can now use the results from the pig carcass grading equipment, Fat-O-Meat’er II, for payment to the farmers.

 The official body ONCCA, which is a part of the Ministry of Agriculture, organized the approval test last year in collaboration with selected slaughterhouses and with assistance from Carometec’s distributor for Argentina, Food Technology S.A.

The meat production in Argentina has historically been dominated by a large number of cattle livestock but since 2000 the pig production has shown an important increase from 2.5 mio. pigs to 3.3 mio pigs slaughtered 10 years later. The government focuses on pig production in order to obtain higher self-sufficiency for Argentina.

During the past 3 months, data collection for an EU approval test has taken place at the Spanish slaughterhouse Le Porc Gourmet in Vic close to Barcelona.

Included in the approval test are the newly improved grading systems, Fat-O-Meat'er II and AutoFom III.

The trial is organised by the Catalan Food Research Institute, IRTA, in close collaboration with the slaughterhouse. IRTA is also in charge of reporting the official documents to the Pig Carcass Grading Committee of the EU Commission in Brussels.

Today, Carometec is the market leader of pig carcass grading equipment in Spain with 12 fully automatic AutoFom systems and more than 20 hand-held Fat-O-Meat'ers.

With this new approval test Carometec introduces the newest generation of the advanced ultrasonic grading system AutoFom to the Spanish market and the updated version of the strong brand, the Fat-O-Meat'er, currently sold to hundreds of slaughterhouses worldwide.

Carometec has now built over 100 Touch Panels i15 since the product was launched 1½ years ago.

The Touch Panel i15 has proven able to endure very tough environments as they are used in slaughterhouses both as stand-alone equipment and together with our Fat-O-Meat’er II and AutoFom. During the 18 months of operation we have not had a single mechanical failure and only a handful of the Touch Panels i15 have failed due to disk drive crashes or similar errors.

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