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  • Veterinary Pathology
  • Food Safety Assurance
  • Animal Health Surveillance

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  • Current European Community (EC) regulations mandate meat inspection involving visual inspection, palpation, and organ incision.
  • The effectiveness and reliability of these standard procedures, particularly visual inspection alone, require rigorous evaluation.
  • Variations in inspection protocols can impact the detection of postmortem abnormalities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the reproducibility and accuracy of a visual-only postmortem meat inspection system against standard EC-regulated procedures.
  • To assess the diagnostic performance of different inspection methods for detecting specific postmortem abnormalities and additional findings in pigs.
  • To determine if a simplified visual inspection can achieve comparable results to traditional methods.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments involving 31,682 finishing pigs were conducted.
  • Three inspection procedures were evaluated: visual (inspection without manipulation), regular (EC-regulated visual, palpation, incision), and extra (EC-regulated with extended time).
  • Reproducibility was measured using Cohen's kappa (CK), and sensitivity/specificity were compared for 12 abnormalities and 4 additional findings.

Main Results:

  • Both visual and regular inspection methods demonstrated poor to fair reproducibility (CK 0.14–0.64 and 0.24–0.73, respectively).
  • No significant differences in specificity and sensitivity were found between visual and regular inspection for most findings.
  • Sensitivity was generally low (0–76%), with a high number of false-negative findings in both methods.

Conclusions:

  • Many postmortem abnormalities and additional findings are detected similarly by both visual and regular inspection procedures.
  • Both inspection methods exhibit significant limitations, indicating they are imperfect for comprehensive detection.
  • The findings underscore the necessity of incorporating risk assessment strategies to complement current meat inspection protocols.