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Bulletin No. 18 - Spring 2004
Parasitology- No Category
MEISINGER D
Skin trim losses at slaughter - Merial/Elanco/National Pork Board's [NPB] Initiatives with the Packing Industry.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, March 6-9, 2004, Des Moines, Iowa, Abstract No. 103
Not much is known about the costs or losses associated with parasites at the packing plant level. In order to investigate the perceptions that hog slaughterers have about mange and its associated losses in their plants, a survey was undertaken with the largest packers in the US. Seven packers, representing 27 large slaughter plants, responded to the survey of the ten that were solicited. The costs of skinning either totally or partially on a rail out line were estimated to be fairly significant by all the packers. The costs to the packer include downtime, extra labor, loss of product or loss of product value if it goes to rendering, and the hassle associated with something out of the routine flow in these high volume lines. It is estimated that, on average, the total cost of Ascaris infection is 3-5 euros per slaughtered pig [3.52 US$ - 5.87 US$].
