Identification of mycobiota in Serbian slaughterhouses

Critical Issues in Mycobiota Analysis

Fungi constitute an important part of the human microbiota and they play a significant role for health and disease development. Advancements made in the culture-independent analysis of microbial communities have broadened our understanding of the mycobiota, however, microbiota analysis tools have been mainly developed for bacteria (e.g., targeting the 16S rRNA gene) and they often fall short if...

Livestock slaughterhouses waste management in urban environment

The current study presents an investigation on the waste management in the cattle slaughterhouse by the following objectives: a) to identify the existing waste management practices in relation to sources, quantity and characteristic of wastes; b) to identify the situation of production, collection, storage, transportation, processing and recycling, and final disposal of wastes and the problems ...

Slaughterhouses and humane treatment.

Man has the moral obligation to respect all animals and also to safeguard animals which are destined for slaughter from unnecessary suffering. Each country should establish regulations to secure humane conditions of slaughter for the various animal species. Unloading, lairaging, moving, stunning and bleeding of animals are all important for animal welfare; training and sensitivity of personnel ...

Monitoring Animal Welfare at Slaughterhouses

Statistical Monitoring of Condemnations from Slaughterhouses

Methods This study focuses on the whole carcass condemnations (WCC) of cattle slaughtered in Switzerland between 2007 and 2012 (1). The monthly time series was retrospectively modelled using the function {hhh4} in the R {surveillance} package (2). The mean monthly incidence was decomposed additively into an auto-regressive component; and an endemic component multiplied by the offset to adjust f...