Viscera of slaughtered ruminants and potential threats to human health in the Czech Republic
2003
Vecerek, V. | Chloupek, P. | Pistekova, V. (Veterinarni a Farmaceuticka Univ., Brno (Czech Republic)) | Kozak, A. | Malena, M.
The lungs, heart, liver, spleen, stomach and forestomachs and intestines of slaughtered ruminants (cattle without calves, calves, sheep and goats) were examined in order to assess the potential health risk for humans. The potential threat was calculated as a ratio between the number of organs condemned as unfit for human consumption and the total number of animals slaughtered. The potential threat trends were computed as the index of the ratio between the number of condemned viscera in the periods between 1999 and 2002 and between 1995 and 1998. The highest levels of potential threats were found in the lungs (cattle without calves 29.3 %, calves 37.8 %, sheep and goats 38.6 %). As shown by the indexes, a growing trend of health risk was observed for most organs, especially for cattle intestines (index 3.29), sheep and goat spleen (index 5.99).
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