A European survey on post-mortem inspection of finishing pigs: Total condemnation criteria to declare meat unfit for human consumption

Vieira‐Pinto, Madalena; Langkabel, Nina; Santos, Susana; Alban, Lis; Laguna, Jaime Gómez; Blagojević, Bojan; Meemken, Diana; Bonardi, S.; Antunović, Boris; Ghidini, Sergio; Maurer, Patric; Alvseike, Ole; Laukkanen‐Ninios, Riikka

doi:10.1016/j.rvsc.2022.07.013

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“…Essas descobertas são registradas em listas de motivos para condenação, fornecendo informações para monitorar a saúde animal. Além disso, esses dados têm o potencial de revelar tendências e variações na incidência de doenças animais, influenciadas por métodos de criação, fatores epidemiológicos e protocolos profiláticos (PINTO et al, 2022).…”

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Avaliação Da Rotulagem De Diferentes Marcas De Barras De Chocolates Comercializadas Em Itapetinga – Ba

Santos,

Souza

2024

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Avaliação Da Rotulagem De Diferentes Marcas De Barras De Chocolates Comercializadas Em Itapetinga – Ba

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2024

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“…In recent years, there has been a notable shift in post-mortem inspections, moving away from routine palpation and incision towards visual-only post-mortem examinations. This change has allowed the slaughter industry to strike a balance between accurate official control and reduced risk of cross-contamination while remaining cost-effective [3][4][5].…”

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Comparing Visual-Only and Visual-Palpation Post-Mortem Lung Scoring Systems in Slaughtering Pigs

Ghidini

Luca

Rinaldi

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Respiratory diseases continue to pose significant challenges in pig production, and the assessment of lung lesions at the abattoir can provide valuable data for epidemiological investigations and disease surveillance. The evaluation of lung lesions at slaughter is a relatively simple, fast, and straightforward process but variations arising from different abattoirs, observers, and scoring methods can introduce uncertainty; moreover, the presence of multiple scoring systems complicates the comparisons of different studies, and currently, there are limited studies that compare these systems among each other. The objective of this study was to compare validated, simplified, and standardized schemes for assessing surface-related lung lesions in slaughtered pigs and analyze their reliability under field conditions. This study was conducted in a high-throughput abattoir in Italy, where two different scoring methods (Madec and Blaha) were benchmarked using 637 plucks. Statistical analysis revealed a good agreement between the two methods when severe or medium lesions were observed; however, their ability to accurately identify healthy lungs and minor injuries diverged significantly. These findings demonstrate that the Blaha method is more suitable for routine surveillance of swine respiratory diseases, whereas the Madec method can give more detailed and reliable results for the respiratory and welfare status of the animals at the farm level.

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“…However, the regulation is not necessarily fulfilled with respect to all detailed requirements and inadequate ante- and post-mortem inspection still occurs. In addition, the EU legislation concerning judgment criteria at meat inspection is mostly generic, allowing flexibility on one side but also subjectivity on the other side ( 6 ). Such variability in meat inspection procedures leaves an open question about the suitability of data collected during meat inspection for animal health and welfare surveillance.…”

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Can we use meat inspection data for animal health and welfare surveillance?

Comin,

Jonasson,

Rockström

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Ante- and post-mortem inspections at abattoir were originally introduced to provide assurance that animal carcasses were fit for human consumption. However, findings at meat inspection can also represent a valuable source of information for animal health and welfare surveillance. Yet, before making secondary use of meat inspection data, it is important to assess that the same post-mortem findings get registered in a consistent way among official meat inspectors across abattoirs, so that the results are as much independent as possible from the abattoir where the inspection is performed. The most frequent findings at official meat inspections of pigs and beef cattle in Sweden were evaluated by means of variance partitioning to quantify the amount of variation in the probabilities of these findings due to abattoir and farm levels. Seven years of data (2012–2018) from 19 abattoirs were included in the study. The results showed that there was a very low variation between abattoirs for presence of liver parasites and abscesses, moderately low variation for pneumonia and greatest variation for injuries and nonspecific findings (e.g., other lesions). This general pattern of variation was similar for both species and implies that some post-mortem findings are consistently detected and so are a valuable source of epidemiological information for surveillance purposes. However, for those findings associated with higher variation, calibration and training activities of meat inspection staff are necessary to enable correct conclusions about the occurrence of pathological findings and for producers to experience an equivalent likelihood of deduction in payment (independent of abattoir).

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A European survey on post-mortem inspection of finishing pigs: Total condemnation criteria to declare meat unfit for human consumption

Cited by 40 publications

References 12 publications

Avaliação Da Rotulagem De Diferentes Marcas De Barras De Chocolates Comercializadas Em Itapetinga – Ba

Avaliação Da Rotulagem De Diferentes Marcas De Barras De Chocolates Comercializadas Em Itapetinga – Ba

Comparing Visual-Only and Visual-Palpation Post-Mortem Lung Scoring Systems in Slaughtering Pigs

Can we use meat inspection data for animal health and welfare surveillance?

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