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AU Troeger,K.

TI Transportation of slaughter animals. Treatment during transport and its consequences for product quality

QU Fleischwirtschaft 1996; 76: 157-158

PT journal article

AB The transportation of animals to be slaughtered has increasingly become the focus of critical public attention. For large sections of the population the acceptance of "meat" is closely linked with how the animals are treated. Here, a fair treatment of slaughter animals during transport and in the slaughterhouse plays an important role. Moreover, treating slaughter animals in a just and gentle way is also an indispensable prerequisite with regard to high product quality. During the transport of slaughter pigs the following parameters have a high influence on the resulting quality of carcases and meat: fasting periods, loading and unloading facilities (e.g. angle of inclination of ramps), kind and equipment of transport vehicles, loading density, time of transport, way of driving and handling of animals. Resting time at the slaughterhouse necessary for animals to regain a balanced physical condion requires that suitable resting houses are available and fattening units are retained.Resting time should be 2-4 hours. When driving the animals to be stunned their physical and emotional stress (running performance and handling) are higly instrumental in the formation of product quality deficiencies. In the case of cattle, too, transport which is insensitive to the needs of animals often leads to the carcases being damaged and deficiencies in quality.In the main part this is due to subcutaneous as well as intramuscular and inter-muscular hematomas caused by unsuitable loading density and transport vehicles. In the case of young male bovines under heavy ante mortem stress, for example by mixing animals unknown to each other, there is an increased risk of dark cutting beef.

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