6 Terms
Contributors in Fish processing
Fish processing
Defect, defective
Fishing; Fish processing
Terms with particular meaning in quality control, especially in the sampling and testing of products for compliance with specifications. A defect is a failure in an item to comply with one or more ...
Denature
Fishing; Fish processing
(1) One meaning of denature in food science is to render a foodstuff unsuitable for consumption because it does not comply with food laws or regulations. An example in fish technology would be where ...
Denaturation
Fishing; Fish processing
(1) One meaning of denature in food science is to render a foodstuff unsuitable for consumption because it does not comply with food laws or regulations. An example in fish technology would be where ...
Deveining
Fishing; Fish processing
Refers to the removal of the vein (gut, hind gut, intestine, weed) from the tail of crustaceans to yield deveined tail meat. The vein runs down the back of the animal between the flesh and the shell ...
Dewatering press
Fishing; Fish processing
Minced fish recovered from a bone separator often contains an undesirable amount of free water, probably from the water used to lubricate the drum of the bone separator. This can be removed in a ...
Dimethylamine
Fishing; Fish processing
An amine of formula (CH3)2NH. Formed in the muscle tissue of some species of fish by the action of enzymes on trimethylamine oxide. Dimethylsulphide (DMS) A compound with the formula (CH3)S. In ...
Dioxins
Fishing; Fish processing
A shortened form of the name for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, a group of compounds with several, typically 4 to 8, chlorine atoms in the molecule. Typically used as a collective term to include ...
