Meat inspection (MI) is one of the most widely implemented and longest running systems of
surveillance. It was primarily introduced to identify meat of animals that is not fit for human …

Background Effective animal health surveillance systems require reliable, high-quality, and
timely data for decision making. In Tanzania, the animal health surveillance system has …

Abstract Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory
syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), is an emergent disease that threatens global …

Slaughterhouse or meat factory surveillance to detect factory lesions (FL) at slaughter is an
important part of the bovine tuberculosis (bTB) eradication program in Ireland. The objective …

Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) is a One Health issue that interconnects human health with
animal and environmental health. Due to its importance, cattle (the main host) it is under a …

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a series of opinions to assess
the impact of changing from the current meat inspection procedures (CMI) to visual-only …

A risk-based assessment of post-mortem inspection activities and disposition judgment
criteria was undertaken for cattle, sheep, goats and pigs in Australia against the current …

Background Australia declared freedom from bovine tuberculosis (TB) in accordance with
international guidelines in 1997 and has since maintained ongoing surveillance for this …

Background The condemnation of carcases and offal unfit for human consumption is a
regulatory requirement at the slaughterhouse. Condemnation data, if comprehensive and …

Meat inspection records of one large cattle slaughterhouse were analyzed to evaluate the
added value of slaughterhouse data for cattle health surveillance in the Netherlands. Data …