Extended ante and post mortem inspection system for broilers

The study revealed that serositis/deep dermatitis, ascites and underdevelop ment of animals accounted for the miniority of condemnations. Major condemn ation reason and others were correlated to findings during the fattening pe riod. With respect to the final carcass weight only few parameters showed a high correlation. The same applies to the coefficient of variance for the animal weight at the end of the fattening period which does not corroborate the results of other authors. Because of their relevance for the feed back to the farm of origin in parti cular the performance and results of the 300 animal samples of inspected ca rcasses were of interest. 27600 carcasses of 32 selected flocks were re-ins pected. On 157 carcasses defects were discovered. To transfer these number of defects to the inspected carcasses of a whole flock 0.53% of all inspect ed carcasses were flawed. It can be calculated that 22.6% of carcasses unfi t for human consumption were not detected during meat inspection. Re-inspection of all condemned carcasses may be leading to conformation or re-assessment of the findings during meat inspection. This procedure is see n as a tool to evaluate the inspection quality. Obviously however, a rare of less than 2% defects including those found dur ing the meat inspection would not provide sufficient information to be help ful either for the farmer nor for the carrier or the slaughterhouse personn el.