Biosecurity and Lairage Time versus Pork Meat Quality Traits in a Farm-Abattoir Continuum.

ABSTRACT: The modern pig production chain is increasingly focused on biosecurity, quality, and safety of meat and is associated with many challenges impacting world meat markets, such as animal disease outbreaks and sanitary restrictions, trade regulations and quality requirements. To overcome such challenges and assure more consistent pork meat quality (and safety), there is a need to develop an effective and reliable monitoring system in a farm-abattoir continuum that can be based on selected biomarkers. This study assessed interrelations of selected stress and inflammation biomarkers (acute phase proteins (APP)) between farm biosecurity score versus pork meat quality traits after two different lairage periods. Briefly, the maximum recorded levels of stress hormones (436.2 and 241.2 ng/mL, for cor

SUBMITTER: Nastasijevic I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9738693 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature