Jacobs Pieter, Berends Boyd, Lipman Len
Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), P.O. Box 43006, 3540 AA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Department of Population Health Science, Faculty Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80175, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Foods. 2023 Feb 1;12(3):616. doi: 10.3390/foods12030616.
In this study, the contribution of the (AM) inspection and the food chain information (FCI) to ensuring meat safety and public health was investigated, by evaluating the slaughterhouse findings of 223,600 slaughtered dairy cows in the Netherlands. The outcome of this study was that the (AM) and (PM) inspections have a substantial overlap, and that with regard to food safety and public health in over 99% of cases the PM could even be omitted on the basis of the AM. In this study, the data provided by the dairy farmers on the current FCI forms contributed little to nothing with regard to the outcomes of AM and PM inspection. It is concluded that current meat inspection procedures need an update and a more risk-based approach needs to be adopted. Regarding this, the AM inspection of dairy cattle should remain, because it plays an important role in ensuring food safety (e.g., by preventing contamination of the slaughter line by excessively dirty animals, or animals with abscesses), monitoring animal welfare and in detecting some important notifiable diseases. The PM inspection, however, could in many cases be omitted, provided there is a strict AM inspection complemented by a vastly improved (automated) way of obtaining reliable FCI.
在本研究中，通过评估荷兰223600头屠宰奶牛在屠宰场的检查结果，调查了（AM）检查和食物链信息（FCI）对确保肉类安全和公共卫生的贡献。本研究的结果是，（AM）和（PM）检查有很大的重叠，并且就食品安全和公共卫生而言，在超过99%的情况下，基于AM检查甚至可以省略PM检查。在本研究中，奶农在当前FCI表格上提供的数据对AM和PM检查的结果几乎没有贡献。得出的结论是，当前的肉类检查程序需要更新，需要采用更基于风险的方法。关于这一点，奶牛的AM检查应该保留，因为它在确保食品安全（例如，通过防止过于脏污的动物或有脓肿的动物污染屠宰线）、监测动物福利以及检测一些重要的应通报疾病方面发挥着重要作用。然而，在许多情况下，可以省略PM检查，前提是有严格的AM检查，并辅以大大改进的（自动化）获取可靠FCI的方式。
