The present invention is directed to the recovery of meat and stock from
offal and the generation of enriched stock products derived from selected
fractions arid products of this meat recovery process. Specifically the
present invention relates to a meat recovery process comprising the
general steps of collecting offal material, cooking the offal material in
water, decanting the cooked material into a solids fraction and a liquor
fraction, separating the solids fraction into meat material and bone
material using a non-destructive gravity separation method and delivering
said meat material and said bone material for further processing and
reducing the water content of the liquor fraction to produce a
concentrated stock product, Additionally, according to another aspect the
present invention also discloses a process for making an enriched stock
product comprising a collagen rich fraction.