A key to 24 Staphylinidae species associated with decaying carcasses in Argentina is presented, including diagnoses, illustrations, distributional and bionomical data for these species. This article provides a table of all species associated with carcasses, detailing the substrate from which they were collected and geographical distribution by province. All 24 Staphylinidae species recorded are...

The purpose of the study was to develop a comprehensive system veterinary and sanitary examination safety quality slaughter products Zaanen goats. studies were conducted on goats at age 36 months. According results organs carcasses, all experimental animals found be healthy. Five muscles served as material for studying chemical composition: semi-webbed muscle, biceps femur, longest back, should...

background the genus-listeria has two pathogenic species namely, listeria monocytogenes and listeria ivanovii. of these, l. monocytogenes is a well-known cause of abortion, encephalitis and septicaemia in man and animals. listeria ivanovii is an animal pathogen and in rare cases causes human infection. contamination of ovine carcasses during the slaughter and processing is a major risk for food...

background: bovine cysticercosis is one of the most important parasitic diseases caused by the metacestode stage of the human tapeworm taenia saginata. the public health and economic consequences of this parasite may be considerable due to downgrading and the condemnation of carcasses. therefore, this survey was designed to estimate the prevalence, economic losses and food safety importance of ...

Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli are the most important human enteropathogens among the campylobacters. The objective of this study was to determine how diversity in Campylobacter populations found on chicken carcasses collected from 17 broiler processing plants in the United States is impacted by processing. Genetic diversity was determined for up to four isolates per carcass by seq...

A comparison of techniques for detecting the presence of Cysticercus bovis in bovine carcasses was made by using carcass dissection and routine beef inspection guidelines. In the study, 28 calves were used after they were tested and found to be negative for the presence of anti-C. bovis serum antibodies and were inoculated orally with aliquots containing 6×10(4) Taenia saginata eggs. One hundre...

Ninety-two swine averaging 104 +/- 4.5 kg and 99 cold carcasses averaging 75 +/- 3.1 kg were measured with a four-terminal plethysmograph. Pigs were transported to the abattoir, fasted 4 h, weighted, and measured for body resistance (Rs, omega), body reactance (Xc, omega), and distance (L, cm) between detector terminals that were located along the dorsal axis of the animal. Pigs were slaughtere...