Analysis of dielectric constants of slaughtered and non-slaughtered chicken

Muslims have genuine concerns regarding origin of the meat at the market. On the other hand, several Muslim countries import meat whose origin is doubtful and bearing an unverifiable HALAL-label. This is because there is no intelligence device available to check either meat is slaughtered or not? Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the values of the dielectric constant of chicken at respective applied frequency of 30.0 Hz, 250.0 KHz and 3.0 MHz. In order to simulate on RC circuit as well as to determine characteristic properties that can differentiate between slaughtered and non-slaughtered chicken using the capacitance measurement technique. The slaughtered and non slaughtered chicken is used as the dielectric medium of the capacitor in the RC circuit. The different values of dielectric constant are obtained from variation of the dielectric medium of the meat as a capacitor. The testing and variation of the capacitance values could determine the status of the meat either slaughtered or not. The results showed that; the frequency of 250 KHz gives stable outputs. In addition, a significant deviation of dielectric constant between slaughtered and non-slaughtered chicken has been observed. The values of dielectric constant of slaughtered chicken appear to be lower than those of non-slaughtered chicken. The result indicates a potential sensing property that able to distinguish between slaughtered and non-slaughtered meat.