Publications (7)2.28 Total impact
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Article: Post-slaughter traceability.
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ABSTRACT: Traceability programs can cover the whole of life, or parts of it, for individual animals or groups/lots of animals. Of 13 country or community traceability programs for cattle/beef, 11 are mandatory (4 encompass, or are scheduled to encompass, birth to retail; 7 cover birth to slaughter) while 2 are voluntary and encompass birth to slaughter. Of 10 country or community traceability programs for swine/pork, 2 are mandatory (1 covers birth to retail; 1 covers birth to slaughter) while 8 are voluntary. Of 6 country or community traceability programs for sheep/sheep-meat, 3 are mandatory (1 encompasses birth to retail; 2 encompass birth to slaughter) while 3 are voluntary. Mandatory birth to retail programs that include "post-slaughter individual animal identification (IAID) traceability" have been implemented for cattle/beef, swine/pork and sheep/sheep-meat by the European Union and for cattle/beef by Japan. Many of the voluntary as well as mandatory, birth to slaughter traceability programs for all three species are presumed (though that is not specified) to include "post-slaughter group/lot identification (GLID) traceability" - e.g., those qualifying products for shipment to the European Union. "Post-slaughter IAID traceability" can be accomplished in very-small, small, medium, large and very-large packing plants using single-carcass processing units, tagging and separation/segregation, and/or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fingerprinting technology but all of these approaches are time-consuming and costly; and, to-date, in most countries, there has been no reason compelling enough to cause industry to adopt such protocols or technology.Meat Science 09/2008; 80(1):66-74. · 2.28 Impact Factor -
Article: Review: Swine traceability systems in selected countries outside of North America.
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Article: Review: Animal identification systems in North America.
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Article: Review: Sheep traceability systems in selected countries outside of North America.
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Article: Review: Identification and traceability of cattle in selected countries outside of North America.
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Article: Opinions of those in cattle, swine, and sheep slaughtering and rendering sectors regarding aspects of the National Animal Identification System.
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ABSTRACT: Opinions of those in the cattle, swine, and sheep slaughtering and rendering sectors were characterized regarding aspects of the National Animal Identification System. Across plants of all size categories, operators of 51, 46, 65, and 22% of cattle, swine, and sheep slaughtering and rendering plants, respectively, said they would now, voluntarily, submit animal termination records (ATR). By size category, however, too few operators of large cattle and swine slaughtering and rendering plants are willing to do so. There are preconditions that might make slaughtering and rendering plant operators more willing to voluntarily submit ATR; 79 to 88% would do so if radio frequency identification devices (cattle and sheep) and slap-tattoo or premises identification numbers (swine) were made mandatory. Only 22, 29, 29, and 14% of cattle, swine, and sheep slaughtering and rendering plant operators, respectively, would voluntarily pay a private database provider a fee to protect ATR data from the Freedom of Information Act, and 53, 25, 31, and 57%, respectively, of plant operators would—if ATR submission were made mandatory—send their ATR data through a private database provider if the fees were paid by the government. Support for mandatory animal identification (which would include submission of ATR) across small-, medium-, and large-sized plant categories was 47 to 80, 25 to 43, 25 to 100, and 100% for cattle, swine, and sheep slaughtering and rendering plant operators, respectively, if industry had to pay for it, but increased to 65 to 90, 64 to 75, 50 to 100, and 100% if the government would pay for it. -
Article: Post-slaughter traceability
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ABSTRACT: Traceability programs can cover the whole of life, or parts of it, for individual animals or groups/lots of animals. Of 13 country or community traceability programs for cattle/beef, 11 are mandatory (4 encompass, or are scheduled to encompass, birth to retail; 7 cover birth to slaughter) while 2 are voluntary and encompass birth to slaughter. Of 10 country or community traceability programs for swine/pork, 2 are mandatory (1 covers birth to retail; 1 covers birth to slaughter) while 8 are voluntary. Of 6 country or community traceability programs for sheep/sheep-meat, 3 are mandatory (1 encompasses birth to retail; 2 encompass birth to slaughter) while 3 are voluntary. Mandatory birth to retail programs that include “post-slaughter individual animal identification (IAID) traceability” have been implemented for cattle/beef, swine/pork and sheep/sheep-meat by the European Union and for cattle/beef by Japan. Many of the voluntary as well as mandatory, birth to slaughter traceability programs for all three species are presumed (though that is not specified) to include “post-slaughter group/lot identification (GLID) traceability” – e.g., those qualifying products for shipment to the European Union. “Post-slaughter IAID traceability” can be accomplished in very-small, small, medium, large and very-large packing plants using single-carcass processing units, tagging and separation/segregation, and/or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fingerprinting technology but all of these approaches are time-consuming and costly; and, to-date, in most countries, there has been no reason compelling enough to cause industry to adopt such protocols or technology.Meat Science.
