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Post-slaughter traceability

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Gary C. Smith *
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Dustin L. Pendell
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J. D. Tatum
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K. E. Belk
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John N. Sofos
DOI:10.1016/j.meatsci.2008.05.024delete
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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 11 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. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
meat identification and traceability
post-slaughter traceability

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Meat Science
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Colorado State University System
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