CarnotecniaFood technology
Maracaibo · Venezuela · Consulting in 6 languages

Food technology that holds up in numbers, not in family recipes.

From the sausage to the dog’s kibble: meat products, sauces, precooked flours, pasta, by-product recovery and animal feed. We manufacture in Venezuela and advise plants anywhere in the world.

Remote consulting by video call · Factory and wholesale in Maracaibo

What meat technology is

Meat technology is the discipline that joins livestock production with the transformation and preservation of meat and its by-products. It is not just «making sausages»: it is controlling protein, water, fat, salt and time until the product comes out the same every single day.

And it reaches further than the name suggests: the same animal that gives the loin gives the bone that gives the meal that feeds the animal that starts the cycle again. That full recovery is the thread running through everything we do.

6 languagesTechnical enquiries in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Arabic
15 sheetsPublished formulations with process, dosage and defects
25 servicesFrom cost-down reformulation to a full livestock project
What we do

Three fronts, one discipline.

We produce, we advise and we teach with the same technical criteria. What we recommend to a client is what we run in our own plant.

Venezuela

Sausages and dry-aged meat

Our own production of fresh, scalded and cured sausages and dry-aged meat, sold wholesale to butchers, delicatessens, restaurants and hotels.

  • Fresh: grilling chorizo, longaniza, criolla sausage.
  • Scalded: mortadella, bologna, cooked ham, Frankfurt-type sausage.
  • Dry cured: salami, Spanish chorizo, soppressata, cured loin.
  • Dry-aged: beef aged by batch, with recorded weight loss and water activity.
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International

Food technology consulting

For plants already in production that need the product to come out the same every day, or that want to launch a new line without burning six months on trial and error.

  • Plant diagnosis: where yield is lost and why.
  • Reformulation to cut cost per kilo without losing quality.
  • Product and dossier compliance for export markets.
  • HACCP, shelf life, technical sheets and regulatory registration.
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Online

Training and industrial formulations

Complete formulations with the reason for every gram, not copied ingredient lists. For people who manufacture, not for people who collect PDFs.

  • Formulation sheets with each additive’s function and legal dosage.
  • Process curves: temperature, humidity and time, hour by hour.
  • Cost per kilo and weight-loss calculation before you produce.
  • Defect diagnosis: why did the emulsion break, why did it turn grey?
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Technical areas

Six areas, one set of criteria.

These are not loose specialities: a mayonnaise emulsion obeys the same physics as a mortadella one, and the bone left over from cutting is the raw material of animal feed. Knowledge accumulates, it does not split.

Meat and charcuterie

Fresh, scalded and dry cured sausages, and dry-aged beef. Where the company started and where the technical library runs deepest.

9 fichas

Sauces and dressings

Mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, hot sauces and dressings. Emulsions and acidification: the same physics as mortadella, applied cold.

2 fichas

Precooked flours and pasta

Precooked corn flour, bakery blends and dry pasta. Starch gelatinisation, flaking, extrusion and the drying curve that decides everything.

2 fichas

By-products and rendering

Meat and bone meal, blood meal, tallow. What most plants pay to throw away, and which can carry a second line of business.

1 ficha

Animal feed and petfood

Extruded kibble for dogs and cats, and compound feed for poultry, pigs and cattle. Least-cost formulation that still meets the nutrient profile.

1 ficha

Livestock projects

Poultry, pig or cattle operations: sizing, feeding, health plan, and the number almost nobody gets right — feed conversion ratio.

How we work

Numbers first, recipe second.

A plant that does not know its real weight loss or its cost per kilo does not have a flavour problem: it has a control problem. That is always where the work starts.

01

Cost-down reformulation

Redesigning the formula to produce cheaper without the customer noticing: lean-fat-water ratio, functional proteins, phosphate system and thermal yield.

Deliverable
New formula costed side by side with the current one, showing the saving per kilo and the sensory trial proving no quality was lost.
02

Export compliance

What has to change in formula, process, packaging and labelling for the product to enter the destination market: European Union, United States, Gulf states, Mercosur or the Andean Community.

Deliverable
Gap report against the destination regulation and a closing plan, with the technical dossier that authority requires.
03

Halal and kosher production

Bringing formula and plant in line with halal or kosher requirements: replacing critical ingredients, line segregation, traceability and preparation for the certifying body’s audit.

Deliverable
Compliant formula, segregation manual and a dossier ready for the certifier.
04

Shelf life validation

Determining real shelf life by trial — microbiological, physicochemical and sensory — instead of copying a competitor’s date.

Deliverable
Study with the deterioration curve, a defensible expiry date and the storage conditions you must declare.
05

Clean label: less sodium, nitrite and allergens

Cutting salt, nitrite, phosphates and allergens without losing microbiological safety or texture. It is the requirement advancing fastest in every market’s regulation.

Deliverable
Reformulated product with the safety barrier recalculated and a simplified label.
06

Turnkey livestock projects

Sizing a poultry, pig or cattle operation: stock numbers, housing, feeding plan, health programme, and the figure almost nobody calculates properly — the feed conversion ratio.

Deliverable
Project with phased investment, feeding plan per production stage and a real break-even point.
Technical library

Published formulations, with the reason for every gram.

These are not ingredient lists: each sheet carries percentages, the process curve, expected yield and the defects that ruin a batch.

Fresh

Grilling chorizo

Full formulation for grilling chorizo: percentages, batter temperature, grinding, stuffing and yield.

Scalded

Mortadella and emulsions

How a stable meat emulsion is built: order in the cutter, temperature ceiling, phosphates, scalding to 72 °C and why the batter breaks.

Scalded

Cooked ham

Brine calculation, injection percentage, tumbling times and cooking for cooked leg ham.

Dry cured

Fermented salami

Directed salami fermentation: starter cultures, pH drop, temperature and humidity curve, target weight loss and water activity control.

Dry cured

Spanish chorizo

Formulation for Spanish-style cured chorizo: paprika ratio, salt, drying curve, target weight loss and how it differs from salami.

Ageing

Dry-aged beef

Dry ageing of beef: temperature, humidity, airflow, ageing days, real loss from evaporation and trimming, and food safety control.

Additives

Nitrite: dosage and law

What nitrite does, how curing salt at 6.

Compliance

Halal sausages

Which ingredients must be replaced, how the line is segregated and what the certifier requires to produce halal sausages and export to the Gulf and Southeast Asia.

Reformulation

Sodium reduction

How to reduce salt in a sausage without losing protein extraction or microbiological safety: substitutes, stepwise reduction and water activity compensation.

Flours

Precooked corn flour

How precooked corn flour is made: degerming, cooking, flaking, drying, milling, and the water absorption index that decides whether the dough works.

By-products

Meat and bone meal

Rendering of meat by-products: sterilisation at 133 °C, pressing, milling, typical protein, calcium and phosphorus figures, and Salmonella control.

Petfood

Dog and cat kibble

How extruded dog and cat food is made: formulation, extrusion parameters, drying, coating and reference nutrient profiles.

Sauces

Industrial mayonnaise

Formulation and process for industrial mayonnaise: oil ratio, emulsifier, the critical pH of 4.

Sauces

Tomato sauce

Industrial process for tomato sauce and ketchup: concentration in degrees Brix, critical pH, hot filling and Bostwick viscosity control.

Pasta

Dry pasta

Industrial dry pasta production: semolina quality, hydration, bronze or teflon dies, and the drying curve that prevents cracking.

Frequently asked

What people ask before they start.

What exactly is meat technology?

It is the discipline that runs from the live animal to the packed product, through slaughter, ageing, formulation, thermal treatment and shelf life. When somebody says «food technology applied to meat», that is what they mean.

Do you work outside Venezuela?

Yes. The factory and wholesale side is Venezuelan, based in Maracaibo, but consulting and training are remote and delivered in any country. We work in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Arabic, and we fit your time zone.

Can I ask about one formula without hiring a whole project?

Yes. A specific question — why an emulsion broke, what nitrite dosage applies, why pH will not drop, whether an ingredient is legal in a given country — is answered by email or a short video call. Projects are for what does not fit in one answer.

Can I set up a small sausage plant?

Yes, and assuming otherwise is the most common mistake. A fresh and scalded line starts with a grinder, a mixer, a stuffer and one chamber: what decides whether it works is not the size of the equipment, it is batter temperature control and formulation discipline.

Do you hand over recipes?

We hand over formulations with the reason for every component and its legal dosage, which is the only thing you can actually produce from. An ingredient list with no process curve and no temperature control reproduces nothing.

How long does developing a new product take?

A fresh or scalded product closes in weeks. A dry cured one needs the full ageing time per trial, so the product sets the clock: between 21 and 90 days depending on calibre and type.

What do I need to sell to hotels and retail chains?

A technical sheet per product, validated shelf life, current regulatory registration and batch records. Without those four documents the negotiation does not start, however good the product is.

Contact

Ask us from wherever you are

We answer in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Arabic. If your question is technical and specific, so is the answer.

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