AM Inspection

Question 1

What is the purpose of an AM inspection?

Answer 1

• Fitness for human consumption
• Notifiable disease surveillance
• Animal welfare

Question 2

What are the responsibilities of the FBO?

Answer 2

• Ensure all animal presented to OV
• Health status
• Identification

Question 3

What must each animal/ batch of animals accepted into the abattoir have/ be?

Answer 3

• Be properly identified
• Be accompanied by relevant information from holding of provenance
• Not come from areas under disease control with movement restrictions UNLESS Competent Authority permits
• Be clean/ healthy, as far FBO can judge
• Be in satisfactory welfare state

Question 4

What must the FBO do if they are aware any of the animals don’t comply with the requirements?

Answer 4

• Notify OV

- Use isolation facilities to house suspect animals

Question 5

Which circumstances mean the OV won’t have performed the AM?

Answer 5

• Emergency slaughter (private vet does it)
• On farm slaughter
• Wild game (Hunter’s declaration)

Question 6

Why are faecal contaminants of particular concern?

Answer 6

-Many zoonotic agents associated to faecal matter

Question 7

What is the responsibility of the FBO for animal cleanliness?

Answer 7

• Should allow ONLY clean animals
• Have procedures in place

(OV must verify FBO compliance)

Question 8

Describe category 1 of the CLP

Answer 8

• Dry
• Clean with regard to dung/ dirt
• Very minor amounts of bedding loosely adhered

Question 9

Who produced guidelines for the CLP?

Answer 9

APHA

Question 10

Describe category 2 of the CLP

Answer 10

• Slightly dirty
• Dry/ damp
• Light contamination dung/ dirt
• Small amount bedding loosely adhered

Question 11

Which are of the animal is of most concern in terms of the CLP?

Answer 11

Ventral- this is where the incision for evisceration occurs

Question 12

Describe category 3 of the CLP

Answer 12

• Dirty
• Dry/damp
• Significant contamination dirt/ dung
• Significant amount of straw/ bedding adhered
• Rejected for slaughter except in E.C

Question 13

Describe category 4 of the CLP

Answer 13

Very dirty

• Dry/ damp
• Heavily contaminated with dirt/ dung
• Significant amount of adherent bedding
• Rejected for slaughter except in E.C

Question 14

Describe category 5 of the CLP

Answer 14

• Filthy/ wet
• Very wet
• Very heavily contaminated with dirt/ dung
• Lot of bedding adherent to the coat
• Rejected for slaughter

Question 15

How can the FBO help manage dirty animals?

Answer 15

• Bedding them in and keeping over night in hope they dry off
• Slowing down processing to increase space between animals to reduce cross contam risk

Question 16

You are performing an AM and find a sheep with Orf. What do you do?

Answer 16

• Ensure wearing PPE especially gloves
• Transmitted by direct contact
• Whether you report depends on severity of the case/ animal welfare