Delivering Food Safety, Food Quality, and Sustainable Production Practices: The Label Rouge Poultry System in France

Westgren, Randall E.

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“…As stated by Dal Bosco et al (2011), some slow-growing poultry products have a long history in Europe as for example the French Label Rouge program, which requires outdoor access and a growing period of at least 81 days for the birds. It occupies a significant part of the French poultry market despite selling products for a higher price compared to the conventional poultry products (Westgren, 1999;Fanatico and Born, 2001). However, in Bulgaria commercial rearing of slow-growing chickens is limited and the research on the meat quality of such breed lines is still scarce.…”

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Difference in fatty acid composition and related nutritional indices of meat between two lines of slow-growing chickens slaughtered at different ages

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Abstract. The fatty acid profile and the related indices of the nutritional quality of breast and thigh muscles were studied in two lines of chickens -La Belle (LB) and White Plymouth Rock (WPR) -slaughtered at the age of 9 and 18 weeks. The fatty acid profile was more affected by the age than the line of the birds; however, the influence of both differed between the breast and thigh. The content of total saturated fatty acids (SFAs) increased in the thigh (P < 0.01), while that of the monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) decreased with age in both muscles (P < 0.001). This corresponded to the significant decrease in C18:1 in the older chickens and the lower desaturase activity (P < 0.001). The contents of C20:4n-6, C22:5n-3 and C22:6n-3 and the total amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in breast were higher (P < 0.001) at the age of 18 weeks. A similar pattern in the individual and total PUFA was observed in the thighs. The effect of line was more visible in the breast, leading to a lower C14:0 content and C20:5n-3 and a higher C18:0 content in the WPR chickens (P < 0.001), corresponding to the higher elongase and thioesterase indices in these birds. Both atherogenic (AI) and thrombogenic (TI) indices were lowered, while the ratio of hypocholesterolemic / hypercholesterolemic fatty acids (h / H) and polyunsaturated / saturated fatty acids (P / S) increased in the breast of the birds at 18 weeks. In breast and thigh meat, the ratio of n-6 / n-3 PUFA decreased in the older chickens (P < 0.001).

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“…One of the most successful production system is the French Label Rouge, requiring outdoor access of birds. It has occupied about 30% of the French market despite the twice lower retail price of conventional products (Westgren, 1999;Fanatiko and Born, 2001). In Poland, certified chickens are available for pasture-based poultry production, and a good example of a free-range rearing program is "kurczak zagrodowy z Podlasia" ("organically raised chickens of Podlasie") (Mikulski et al, 2011).…”

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IntroductionSlow-growing broiler chickens comprise 30% of European poultry meat market (Westgren, 1999; Fanatiko and Born, 2001), and their proportion in the USA has evidenced an increased by 20% (ERS, 2002). Consumers prefer poultry with more breast meat, thighs and drumsticks (Hellmeister, 2002; Sauza, 2004).

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Carcass traits and meat quality of different slow growing and fast growing broiler chickens

Oblakova¹,

Mincheva²,

Hristakieva³

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Editors and Sections Genetics and Breeding IntroductionSlow-growing broiler chickens comprise 30% of European poultry meat market (Westgren, 1999; Fanatiko and Born, 2001), and their proportion in the USA has evidenced an increased by 20% (ERS, 2002). Consumers prefer poultry with more breast meat, thighs and drumsticks (Hellmeister, 2002; Sauza, 2004). The retail market of intensively reared broiler chickens offers grill and various cut parts of the carcass. In broilers reared in extensive systems, the demand is greater and consumers are ready to pay a higher price (Zanusso and Dionello, 2003).The history of specialty poultry products in Europe is longer. One of the most successful production system is the French Label Rouge, requiring outdoor access of birds. It has occupied about 30% of the French market despite the twice lower retail price of conventional products (Westgren, 1999; Fanatiko and Born, 2001). In Poland, certified chickens are available for pasture-based poultry production, and a good example of a free-range rearing program is "kurczak zagrodowy z Podlasia" ("organically raised chickens of Podlasie") (Mikulski et al., 2011).The high interest has necessitated research on the productive performance of these birds (Aksoy et al., 2010;Wang et al., 2013), on the economic efficient of production and the production itself (Farmer et al., 1997;Grashorn, 1999). The studied traits comprise the live weight, slaughter weight, carcass weight, and the weights of different cut parts: breast, thighs, drumstick, back, neck, legs, wings, abdominal fat, offal (Faria et al., 2010). The effects of the genotype, production systems, and various feeding programmes on productive performance and the quality of produce were investigated (Bogosavljevic-Boskovic et al., 2010;Rizzi and Chiericato, 2010; Eleroğlu et al. 2013;Kokoszynski et al., 2013, Sarica et al., 2014 Cömert et al., 2016). The production of slow-growing chickens is expensive and therefore, many farmers prefer using fast-growing strains with low feed conversion ratio, which are widely used in intensive production systems. The choice of a given genotype requires a balance between the organic farming system and good conformation, yet. Attempts to use French breeder forms for production of slowgrowing chickens have been made in Bulgaria as well. A commercial production and marketing of such products is still not implemented. The Experimental base of the Agricultural Institute in Stara Zagora rears chickens, which are appropriate for breeder forms of slowgrowing crosses. The aim of the present study was to investigate the meat yield and the chemical composition of meat of different crosses of slowgrowing and conventional broiler chickens, produced using a specific crossing schedule. Hence, the specific tasks of our research was 1) the performance of a complete slaughter analysis and 2) determination of the chemical composition of poultry meat. Material and methodsThe experiment was conducted in the breeder farm of Department Population genetics, reproduction a...

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“…The wood filière provides an example of the application of these policies .The French term wood filière (Westgren, 1999 andMorvan, 1999) is used here to designate an interactive value chain, from upstream to downstream, among the subsectors of wood-based industries including the forestry, wood and paper industries and sharing a common dependence on the wood resource. The 'competitiveness cluster' policy has been applied to this system, with the emergence in 2005 of the Xylofutur 'competitiveness cluster' in the Aquitaine region of southwestern France.…”

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Sharing a common resource in a sustainable development context: The case of a wood innovation system

Bélis-Bergouignan

Lévy

2010

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Delivering Food Safety, Food Quality, and Sustainable Production Practices: The Label Rouge Poultry System in France

Cited by 67 publications

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Difference in fatty acid composition and related nutritional indices of meat between two lines of slow-growing chickens slaughtered at different ages

Difference in fatty acid composition and related nutritional indices of meat between two lines of slow-growing chickens slaughtered at different ages

Carcass traits and meat quality of different slow growing and fast growing broiler chickens

Sharing a common resource in a sustainable development context: The case of a wood innovation system

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