PM Inspection Flashcards
What legislation is related to PM Inspections?
- Regulation (EC) 854/2004 (Purpose, procedures, decisions)
- Regulation (EC) 853/ 2004 (FBO standards)
Who performs PM inspections?
- MHI does the technical task of the PM on the floor whilst the OV is the technical member of the team.
- OV will carry out PMs too e.g. in emergency slaughter cases
What does MHI stand for?
Meat Hygiene Inspector
What does ‘red’ offal include?
- Lungs
- Heart
- Kidneys
- Liver
(Green= stomach/ intestines??)
What should PM inspections take into account?
- AM findings
- View all external surfaces
- Take into account FCI
- Take place after slaughter without delay
- Include carcasses + offal
- Look for NFDs/ zoonotic diseases
What are the possible outcomes of a PM inspection?
- Pass meat as fit for human consumption
- Declare meat unfit for human consumption
- Detain meat for further examination following rectification
(Rectification: removing part of the carcass that is not fit for consumption )
What condition should you suspect and check for if you find tumours in cattle?
Enzoonotic bovine leukosis
What does fevered meat mean?
- Active hyperaemia
- Pathological condition
- Congestion of blood vessels (can be deep fiery red)
- Meat is sticky/ exudative
- Meat pits on pressure
- Lymph nodes swollen
- Total condemnation
Describe septicaemic carcasses
- Dark red
- Bacteria multiplying inblood stream causing widespread organ damage
- Staphs/ streps
- AM: dull, fever
- PM: fevered, no rigor, high pH, enlarged LN
- Not fit for consumption
Describe melanosis on PM inspections
- Congenital deposits
- Cattle: meninges, bones, lungs, liver
- Pigs: udder
- Sheep: lungs, liver
- Aesthetic condemnation of affected part
What is the consequence of findings jaundice on a PM inspection?
- May be haemolytic (prehepatic), toxic (hepatic) or obstructive (post hepatic)
- Toxic often ragwort toxicity
- Post hepatic often parasitic, tumours etc
- Total condemnation
What is carotene pigmentation?
- Confined to fat
- Hereditary factor
- Common in Guernseys/ Jerseys
- Pass carcass
- Lower value due to aesthetics
What findings might make you suspect toxaemia on a PM inspection?
- Dull/ greyish appearance
- PM: fatty change (liver/ heart etc), lung emphysema, distended gall bladder, enlarged grey LN
- Total condemnation
(On AM: severely ill, dull)
Describe actinobacillosis
- Inflammation to base of tongue, soft palette
- Abscesses, ulcers, fibrosis
- Submandibular/ retropharyngeal node commonly affected
- May effect viscera
- Local condemnation except where emaciation is manifest
Describe development of TB
- Primary lesion= portal of entry (gut or lung)
- 3 weeks= LNs enlarged and grey areas on surface
- Yellow caseous material which calcifies
- Serous membrane- velvety, grape like
