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Assessment of the feasibility of serological monitoring and on-farm information about health status for the future meat inspection of fattening pigs
- Source :
- Preventive veterinary medicine. 162
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Current macroscopic meat inspection cannot detect the most common pork-borne pathogens (Salmonella spp., Yersinia enterocolitica and Toxoplasma gondii). Furthermore, food chain information (FCI) may not provide sufficient data for visual-only inspection, which is supposed to be the common way of inspection of pigs in the European Union. Our observational study aimed to evaluate the serological monitoring and the clinical evaluation of on-farm health status of pigs and assess the feasibility of these data as part of the FCI in meat inspection. We studied the serological status of Salmonella spp., Yersinia spp. and T. gondii in pigs during the fattening period. Additionally, we evaluated the association between on-farm health status and meat inspection findings. On 57 indoor fattening pig farms in Finland, we collected blood samples (mean of 20 pigs/farm) and assessed the on-farm health (coughing, tail biting, lameness) at the end of the fattening period. We visited 34 of these farms also at the beginning of the fattening for sampling and on-farm health evaluation of the same pigs. Meat inspection results were obtained after slaughter for all 57 farms. Salmonella seroprevalence was low at the end of the fattening period: it was 17.6%, 10.6% or 1.9%, with the cut-off values of OD15% (recommended by the test manufacturer), OD20% (used by Danish monitoring programme) and OD40% (used by German monitoring programme), respectively. The overall seroprevalence of Salmonella spp. and Yersinia spp. increased significantly (P
- Subjects :
- Veterinary medicine
Salmonella
Swine
animal diseases
Health Status
Biosecurity
FOOD-CHAIN INFORMATION
413 Veterinary science
medicine.disease_cause
0403 veterinary science
0302 clinical medicine
Food Animals
Risk Factors
Seroepidemiologic Studies
Medicine
Pig farming
PIGS
YERSINIA-ENTEROCOLITICA
Animal Husbandry
Yersinia enterocolitica
Finland
media_common
2. Zero hunger
Swine Diseases
Food chain information
biology
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Yersinia
PREVALENCE
Lameness
Meat inspection
Toxoplasma
Meat
Yersinia Infections
040301 veterinary sciences
030231 tropical medicine
03 medical and health sciences
SALMONELLA-ENTERICA
Seroprevalence
media_common.cataloged_instance
Animals
TYPHIMURIUM
European union
Pig
Salmonella Infections, Animal
business.industry
biology.organism_classification
Food safety
Toxoplasmosis, Animal
TOXOPLASMA-GONDII
TIME-COURSE
Feasibility Studies
Animal Science and Zoology
SPP
business
JUICE
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18731716
- Volume :
- 162
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Preventive veterinary medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....474820a02992b49174a29be304d35265