Causes of organ condemnation, its public health and financial significance in Nekemte municipal abattoir, Wollega, Western Ethiopia

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was conducted from October, 2013 to April, 2014 on cause of organ condemnation, its public health and financial significance in Nekemte municipal abattoir in East Wollega zone, Oromia regional state of Ethiopia. The overall objective was to determine the cause of organ condemnation, its public health and financial significance due to fasciolosis, hydatidosis, Cysticercus bovis and other causes. Accordingly, a total of 534 randomly selected slaughtered cattle were examined both during antemortem and postmortem. There were many physical abnormalities such as localized swelling 12(2.25%), laceration 2(0.37%), branding 21 (3.93%), lameness 11(2.06%), abrasion 4(0.74%), nasal discharge 7(1.31%), and lacrimation 5(0.94%). During postmorterm, inspection organs were condemned due to fasciolosis [liver 65(12.17%)], hydatid cyst [liver 94(17.6%), lung 65(12.17%)], Corynebacterium bovis [heart 8(1.49%) and carcass 2(0.37%)]. The chi 2 analysis of potential risk factors revealed that there was statistically insignificant difference in age, altitude and body condition between animals from different origin (P > 0.05). The total annual direct financial loss from organ condemnation due to hydatidosis, fasciolosis, C. bovis and other causes was estimated to be 1.056,155.05 Ethiopian Birr (ETB) annually = 52807 USD. The result of this study revealed that hydatidosis (12.73%) is the major disease causing direct economic losses significantly in the study area followed by fasciolosis (12.7%) and cysticercosis (2.4%).

Major Abnormalities and their Economic and Public Health Significance in Ruminants Slaughtered at Haramaya and Aweday Municipal Abattoirs, Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia

“…Of these 11 (4.58%) of cattle were 2 (0.83%) coughing, 4 (1.66%) branding, 1 (0.42%) nasal discharge, 1 (0.42%) lacrimation and 3 (1.25%) rough hair coat. Similar results were reported [14] in cattle slaughtered at Adigrat abattoir and relatively higher rate of these lesions [12] in Nekemte municipal abattoir. However, respiratory disorder 44 (29.73%), lameness 29 (19.59%) and localized swelling 17 (11.49% were reported by [23] as the major AM abnormalities encountered.…”

“…Similar finding was reported [12,26]. Besides the nutritional imbalance, the rate of abnormalities of certain organ in animal which might leads to deprivation of body condition.…”

“…Despite many studies that have been conducted on major causes of organ condemnation and economic significance in other parts of Ethiopia which mainly concentrated in Central, Western, Southern and Northern parts [9][10][11][12][13][14][15], there is no documentation on the major causes of organ condemnation, their economic and public health significance in the current study area. Therefore, the objectives of this study were:…”

“…It helps to prevent distribution of contaminated meat that could result to disease risk in man and animals and assisting in detection and eradication of certain diseases of livestock [7]. On the other hand, many studies in Ethiopia have been reported there are considerable financial loss, due to major cause of organ and carcass condemnation in different abattoirs, of about 5,213,939 [8], 15,843.89 [9], 827,686.05 [10], 79,894.58 [11], 52807 [12], 612,054.3 [13] and 152,173.125 [14] in US dollar annually.…”

Prevalence and economic significance of bovine hydatidosis at Adama Municipal Abattoir, Adama, Ethiopia

“…This finding concord with the observations of other workers: Barsisa (1994), Nebiyou (1990), Abera (2007), Tamene (1986) Wubet (1988, Fufa and Debele (2013) and Lati et al (2015) for this reason, the explanation shows that these organs are the first capillary sites encountered by the migrating Echinococcus oncosphere.…”