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8 Case Study 1: Meat Slaughtering and Processing Practices
8 Case Study 1: Meat Slaughtering and Processing Practices
Pages 201-216
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Both the media and Danish politicians have long since found out that food safety and animal welfare are issues that sell. Hardly a month goes by without a newspaper publishing a critical story about the poor quality of food products, the use of antibiotics or the minimal space allocated to livestock in modern livestock buildings.
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The use of antibiotic growth promoters has been banned since 1986, and the use of antibiotics for therapeutic purposes is heavily restricted. Finally, a number of special welfare requirements have been introduced in respect to livestock production in recent years, such as a minimum floor area per animal, which is approximately 30 percent larger than the Danish equivalent.
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The demand from Danish politicians and thereby also Danish consumers is for the complete absence of multiresistant DT-104 bacteria in all meat, Danish as well as imported. Some Danish pig herds are being stamped out in order to eradicate DT-104 on the farms.
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As a result of the conference, Danish pig producers decided to stop the use of antibiotic growth promoters completely within the next year. At the moment, there has already been a considerable decrease in the number of farms using antibiotic growth promoters for piglets.
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For the most part, Danish pig producers have been able to comply with the wishes of Danish consumers. Seen in an international perspective, the level of zoonotic agents is very low, chemical residues are virtually nonexistent, and pig producers are in the process of adopting more welfare-friendly systems for their livestock buildings.
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Meat juice is obtained when frozen meat samples from slaughter pigs are thawed. The slaughterhouses collect meat samples continuously from about 16,000 herds with samples being taken at random from each herd.
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It is assumed that the observed decrease in seropositive meat juice samples is a consequence of more effective Salmonella reduction strategies at the farm level. Level 2 and 3 Herds Throughout the surveillance period the percentages of levels 2 and 3 herds ranged from 2.4 to 4.3 percent and 1.1 to 2.3 percent, respectively.
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consequently have to be slaughtered under increased hygiene precautions. In spring 1998, the Federation of Danish Pig Producers and Slaughterhouses decided to increase the pressure on the chronically infected herds and level 3 herds in general to reduce the number of finishers for special hygiene slaughter.
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1997. The Danish Salmonella Surveillance Programme of Slaughter pig herds.
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CSPI was formed in 1971 and over the past two decades has campaigned for the elimination of hazardous food additives such as sulfating agents, worked to improve meat and poultry inspection, and fought for mandatory nutrition labeling requirements. To further its role in international issues, CSPI became a recognized observer at the Codex Alimentarius Commission and formed a new organization called the International Association of Consumer Food Organizations (IACFO)
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However, if harmonization tends to reduce standards to some acceptable intemational norm, then consumer health and safety may be jeopardized regardless of the economic benefits brought about by free trade. President Clinton has recognized this, and in a 1998 speech last summer to the World Trade Organization he has called for a "leveling up," in his words, of consumer protection regulations and not a leveling down (Office of the President, 1998~.
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The adoption of the Codex standard was quite a loss for the FDA, which fought for years to set stringent bottled water standards in the United States and now may be confronted with demands to permit the import of products that fall below those standards. Certainly there is a potential that international harmonization can raise standards.
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The European consumer remembers that disaster, and distrusts government authorities even more in the wake of the mad cow disease fiasco (Echols, 1998~. And in regard to cultural values, there is the view that America, through its agricultural exports, is trying to McDonaldize the EU food supply.
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1998. Food Safety Regulation in the European Union and The United States: Different Cultures, Different Laws.
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1993. Codex Alimentarius Commission: Codex Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling, CAC/GL 2-1985 (Rev.
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