Poultry Meat Inspection Flashcards
Who are the onsite duties of the FSA?
PIA- poultry inspection assistant
- When should the FCI be recieved?
- What is inspected with live birds?
- FCI- 24hrs in advance
- Listening to the birds, obersation checking posture, wattle colour
When can non-live poultry be accepted?
What should be done for DOA’s?
Dead on arrival
- Delayed eviscerated poultry, geese and ducks for foie gras
- Animals slaughtered at the place of production
- Wild fame
DOAS- report to APHA if over 2.5% for larger 1.5% for smaller
What is done with the FCI?
- Food business operator responsible for obtaining and evaluating as part of HACCP and other risk assessments
- Decides to accept or reject or apply
- The OV audits FBO decision
Wha serogroups of salmonella species are high and low risk?
D and B high risk
C, G and E- low risk
Above what size holding is salmonella tested for?
> 2000 broilers
500 turkeys
250 hens
350 laying chickens for class A eggs
Not supplying final consumers/local retailers
Organic- 6 weeks pre slaughter
With breeding chickens when are they tested?
Chickens- every 3 weeks
Turkeys- every 4 weeks
What is done differently for salmonella testing on farm?
- Retain affected batches and slaughter at the end of the production day
- After- full clean and disinfection
What is the antemortem checking for?
Acute infectious diseases: resp, intestinal, nervous
Paratism
Nutritonal deficiencies
Changes due to behaviour- cannibalism
What are the outcomes for ante-mortem inspection?
- Fit for slaughter
- Fit for slaughter under certain conditions
- Detained (welfare)
- Unfit for slaughter
- Humane killing whilst in lairage on welfare grounds
Other then not passing antemortem what stops an animal being further procesed?
- Dead on arrival
- Dead on lairage
- No FCI
- No ante-mortem inspection
What are the min and max stocking densitied for the following weights?:
1. <1.6kg
2. 1.6-3kg
3. 3-5kg
4. >5kg
- 180-200 cm2/kg
- 160cm2/kg
- 115cm2/kg
- 105cm2/kg
How long shuld be waited after slaughter before further dressed?
Turkey and goose- 2 minutes
Other birds- 90 seconds
What CCTV is required in slaughter?
- Mandatory in England and Scotland
- Needed where killing, live, unloading, lairage and stunning
- Kept for 90 days
- Available for FSA officers
Label the following anatomy
What does this image show?
- Early exudate composed of fibrin and fibrinogen
- Fast and intesnse, granulomatous, within 12hrs
- Fibrinosuppurative(heterophils) pericarditis (a),
perihepatitis (b) and airsaculitis (c1: caudal
thoracic; c2: abdominal)
What disease is this?
Newcastle Disease- notifiable
What disease do these images show?
Avian influenza- notifiable
What are the two most common abnormal conditions of poultry?
Septicaemia
Mechanical damage- normally poor functioning poultry plant machinery
Which haemorrhage is acute which is chronic
Left acute
Right chronic
What could cause this swelling lesion?
- Insuficient bedding- bad thermal insulation, humidity
- Pododermatitis and lameness causing cellulitis
- E.coli
What is this disease?
Oregon disease
What has happened to the two birds?
Which is unfit for human consumption?
Left- white muscle disease
Right- overscald (scald tank)
