Meat inspection protocols

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“…MI’s general aim is to detect animal diseases or health problems at an early stage in order to prevent the occurrence and spread of foodborne diseases and to preserve the quality of foods of animal origin in order to protect public health [ 2 ]. In addition, official control of the abattoir provides a wealth of information that can be used in epidemiological studies and for the development and implementation of appropriate management programs on the farm level [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. In the European Union, the modalities for conducting MI activities and official controls, in general, are regulated by Regulation (EU) No.…”

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Ante-mortem and Post-mortem Inspection and Relationship between Findings in a North Albanian Pig Slaughterhouse

Andoni

Çoçoli

Miraglia

et al. 2023

Animals

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In June 2014, Albania was granted EU candidate status, thus starting a process of compliance with the membership criteria. In this context, a modern meat inspection approach in line with the European legislation was applied to a pig slaughterhouse in northern Albania in order to investigate the ante-mortem (AM) and post-mortem (PM) conditions and the relationship between these findings. For this purpose, 3930 pigs divided into 35 batches were evaluated over a 3-month period. The most frequent AM conditions recorded were tail lesions and dyspnea (9.1%), followed by skin (8.9%) and ear lesions (8.5%), while in the PM inspections, pleuritis was the most frequently observed condition (10.2%), followed by pneumonia (8.5%), liver alterations (5.7%), milk spot liver (3.8%), and pericarditis (3.3%). With the exception of liver alterations, the other PM lesions mentioned were positively associated with lesions on the ears (OR = 1.036; p < 0.001) and skin (OR = 1.026; p = 0.011) and dyspnea (OR = 1.021; p = 0.005), confirming the link between these variables and the health and welfare conditions of pigs on farms. Overall, the evidence that emerged from this Albanian slaughterhouse can be considered in line with other European contexts, especially in light of the considerable variability in the data present in the literature.

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