“…At the same time, poultry factories have recently been slaughtering less and less poultry culled due to veterinary or sanitary defects, and processing facilities are being supplied less such meat, with many not receiving emergency slaughtered poultry at all. However, Russian households and farms still cull up to 20-25% of the entire stock; the culling rates, especially for cases of non-infectious diseases, remain high, which calls for investigation into the issues of scientifically sound veterinary and sanitary inspection of carcasses and offal of emergency slaughtered poultry, which was the reason to conduct this research [8,13,14].…”