Copper concentrations were measured in a 65 samples marketed and collected in Croatia in summer 2012: meat samples (bovine, pig, sheep), meat products (sausages, pâté), fi sh and fi sh products and shellfi sh (mussels, oysters). Mean Cu levels were (mg/kg): all meat 0.77, sausages 0.69, pâté 2.24, fi sh 0.23, fi sh products 1.20, mussels 0.81, oysters 30.0. Signifi cant diff erences were found ...

Introduction: Sarcocystis species are one of the most important meat borne parasites. Sarcocystosis causes several symptoms in human as well as numerous diseases with high economic impact in livestock. In current paper at first results of a pilot study for determination of disease agent in lamb of Yazd province central Iran is presented. Then status of parasite in red meat products in study reg...

South American domestic camelids (SADC) have played a key role in the culture, economy, food security and livelihoods of ancient contemporary societies Andean countries. This is especially due to capacity alpacas llamas produce fibre meat under extreme geographic climatic conditions. In addition, breeding use SADC as fibre, meat, pet sheep herding animals has become popular Europe, North Americ...

Adiponectin plays an important role in energy homeostasis and metabolism in mammalian adipose tissue. In this study, the relationship between adiponectin gene (ADIPOQ) haplotypes and variation in growth and carcass traits in New Zealand (NZ) Romney lambs was investigated using General Linear Models (GLMs). Eight haplotypes were found in these lambs and they were composed of the four previously ...

Proteomics allows studying large numbers of proteins, including their post-translational modifications. Proteomics has been, and still are, used in numerous studies on skeletal muscle. In this article, we focus on its use in the study of livestock muscle development and meat quality. Changes in protein profiles during myogenesis are described in cattle, pigs and fowl using comparative analyses ...

Nowadays, due to the current economic situation in Republic, sheep breeding of Belarus is developing intensively, since there a need for mutton global market. In some regions, work already underway create promising herd with high meat productivity. An obligatory element activities evaluation stud rams quality progeny, accuracy which determines effectiveness selection process. The article contai...

A century ago students were exposed to livestock judging and meat judging, though each was taught as an independent entity. Fifty years ago universities started combining subjects involving the evaluation process, whether characteristics involved traits of the live animal or those related to meat value. Universities developed a meat animal evaluation contest (MAEC) that included breeding livest...

From 2007 through 2009, The Netherlands faced large outbreaks of human Q fever. Control measures focused primarily on dairy goat farms because these were implicated as the main source of infection for the surrounding population. However, in other countries, outbreaks have mainly been associated with non-dairy sheep and The Netherlands has many more sheep than goats. Therefore, a public discussi...

Agricultural sector accounts for about 1/3 of the Iranian GDP and 1/4 of the country workforce. More than 90% of the Iranian food requirements are produced in the country. Animal agriculture covers over 40% of the agricultural activities. More than 57% of the available animal units in the country are sheep and goats. Desertification, deforestation, water shortage, erosion, low efficiency and ou...