How Are Chickens Packaged

For packages of poultry pieces, foam trays and a flow wrapper is used for packaging. A flow wrapper uses two rolls of film to enclose the meat and dish. Other materials used for packaging poultry pieces are clamshell packaging and multi-layer flexible films.

How are chickens processed in a factory?

Machines run by humans automatically stun the birds, cut their throats, and scald and pluck them. First, human workers strap the live chickens into leg shackles on a moving rail, from which the birds hang upside-down as they move on to baths of electrified water, which stuns them.

What is injected into chickens before packaging?

Plumping, also referred to as “enhancing” or “injecting,” is the process by which some poultry companies inject raw chicken meat with saltwater, chicken stock, seaweed extract or some combination thereof.