Análise da localização e quantificação da perda de tecido cárneo decorrentes de reações inflamatórias em carcaças bovinas oriundas da Região da Campanha

Abstract

When most consumers prepare for daily meals, which include beef in their diet, they rarely realize its significance in maintaining their health and even how much of it will be ingested throughout their life, always with the expectation of consuming a healthy and innocuous food. However, these and other assignments of this food depend on several factors, which start from the birth of the animals that will be created for such purpose and end up at slaughter. In this way the cattle undergo various management conditions, including vaccine and drug applications to increase productivity and prevent or cure certain characteristic diseases of the species. This study aimed to analyze the location of all the points that were used to inject drugs and / or vaccines in cattle and that somehow left the carcasses inflammatory reactions, these reactions serve to measure the losses that occur because of this act, either by the procedure or the several points of application. This study evaluated 1258 half-carcasses originating from Região da Campanha municipalities, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. They were slaughtered and inspected at a slaughter plant with state inspection for the period of June 30 to July 28 2014, in the city of Bage. Where were averaged 2.58 kg / animal waste product, from 1360 inflammatory reactions. The development of this analysis shows that the multiple appearance of these lesions, first decreases the offer of this kind of product caused by the inadequacy for human consumption. It also affects carcass yield, which averaged 1.2% less per animal, therefore also decreased profitability. Increases risks to the health of those who, through ignorance come to consume them or return the product by direct rejection if there are flaws in the production and inspection process. Given these facts, it is interesting that the producers and technicians are aware of the results of this work to try to reverse them, preventing the appearance of multiple inflammatory reactions in the carcasses, decreasing their losses in the weight dropped and the risks to the final consumer, resulting from current practices implemented at the time of creation.