Beef carcase icterus: an evaluation of diagnostic methods in terms of visual assessment.

Two laboratory tests on beef carcase fat, two on serum and one on urine from suspect icteric carcases were compared. Used singly on serum, the indirect van den Bergh and Fouchet tests were found to be most useful, and either of these two used together with the indirect van den Bergh test on fat gave results which agreed most closely with a subjective assessment of the marketability of suspect jaundice carcases after 24 hours' chilling.