Each year a large loss from slaughtered animals results due to condemnation of edible organs. Therefore, cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2017 to April 2018 at Bishoftu ELFORA export abattoir to determine the major parasitic cause of organs condemnation in small ruminants brought from Somali, Afar and Borena areas, and to estimate the magnitude of direct economic loss attributed to the condemned organs. 768 small ruminants comprising equal number of sheep and goats were simple randomly selected. Ante-mortem inspection was carried out on arrival in the lairage; temporal identification numbers were given for selected individual animals and abnormalities encountered were recorded. Then after, post-mortem examination was performed in each organ of individual animals along their identification number to detect gross abnormalities and aesthetic reasons that rendered each organ to be rejected from local market.
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