Economic Losses’ Estimation of carcass and Organ Condemnations From Slaughter Cattle in Thailand, Pará State, Brazilian Amazon

Abstract

The article identifies the main pathologies found and estimates the economic losses generated in a slaughterhouse in the Thailand municipality, Pará, during the period from March 2010 to October 2014. 55,169 animals were slaughtered, with total economic losses of R$ 1,221,035.90 and ischemia was the most frequent lesion (41.86%). The most frequent condemnation organs were lungs (48.75%), kidneys (41.66%) and liver (3.61%), which produced economic loss of R$ 76,405.65 (6.26%). Tuberculosis was the main cause of carcass condemnation, responsible for R$ 872,783.64 of economic losses. The bovine tuberculosis control can begin in production, with examinations on the farm to slaughter lines, with careful carcass inspection, as advocated by the National Program for the Control and Eradication of Animal Brucellosis and Tuberculosis (PNCEBT), which increases disease control and minimizes condemnations and economic losses at slaughter.

Perspectives of economic losses due to condemnation of cattle and buffalo carcasses in the northern region of Brazil

“…Tuberculosis, the main cause of condemnation and, consequently, of financial losses, as also described by Noronha et al [ 19 ], with a prevalence of less than 0.04% and 0.002%, in buffaloes and cattle, respectively, with a prevalence of buffaloes, more than sixteen times higher than that of cattle, are far below that reported by Kantor and Ritacco [ 20 ], of 0.37% prevalence of tuberculosis in the animals studied in the Midwest region of Argentina.…”