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
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)
What are the reasons this animal is unfit for human consumption?
Left to right
* Fibrin deposits
* Rounded liver edges
* Dry skin- PM artefact
* Ascites
What disease has caused this lesions?
Salmonella
S. enteritidis
S. typhimurium
Three presentations of what disease?
Marek’s disease- herpes virus
What disease causes the following changes?
Colibacillosis
What zoonosis causes these lesions?
Clamidophila psitacci
psitaccosis
What organs does Avian TB affect?
Liver
Kidneys
GI
Bone marrow etc
Fowl cholera
Whats the agent?
Pasturella multocida
What coccidiosis mainly affects poultry?
Eimeria tenella
What are the two mycoplasma and presentations that can be seen in slaughterhouses?
