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Pork meat quality
The quality of pork is the result of a combination of genetic and environmental factors. There are four major criteria used in measuring pork quality: color, marbling, water-holding capacity, and ultimate pH.
Pork quality comprises a variety of attributes related to the characteristics of the product itself and the conditions under which pigs/pork are produced. Each of these attributes is influenced by various individual factors, ranging from pig genetics to pork preparation for consumption, and their interactions. Pork quality is built along the whole food chain, with synergies and antagonisms between quality attributes. Moreover, the priority attributes depend on chain stakeholders, from the farmer to consumer. Different production and processing methods from farm to fork are identified to improve pork quality according to the priorities and trade-offs between attributes and stakeholders.
Michael Binder, Vice President Sustainability Development at Evonik Animal Nutrition, points out Evonik’s commitment to sustainability performance with a focus on a positive impact for society, supporting sustainable livestock production in Brazil and around the world...
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INTRODUCTION The swine slaughtering process is affected by practices that go from the establishment of fasting on the farm to the slaughtering stage in the slaughterhouse. Animals are subjected to practices that will directly reflect on the quality of their carcass, and on how meat cuts will be ranked as more or less valuable in the market. Thus, pre-slaughter phases are fundamentally relevant to the quality of the final product, once they affect the living experience of animals...
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APIs and Vitamin MARKET - The weak demand for the APIs
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Introduction Parasites have long been neglected but nowadays are becoming more recognized as important foodborne pathogens. Various factors contribute to their undervaluation such as complex lifecycles and transmission routes, prolonged incubation period and chronic disease manifestations. In addition, rapid and sensitive diagnostic assays are not always available and therefore parasite occurrences are often underreported, resulting in low disease...
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1. Introduction The global demand and industrial production of pork and pork products are increasing. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) statistics, worldwide swine production has increased steadily from 1961 to 2007, with Asia the continent with the highest production with around 50% of the total worldwide production. Between 2007 and 2017, production increased significantly in Asia and remained as the highest swine producers (almost...
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The International Consortium for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Agriculture (ICASA) , one of the largest public-private partnerships focused on antibiotic stewardship in animal agriculture, is issuing two separate calls for research concepts, one to improve detection, treatment and prevention of infectious lameness in pigs and the other to develop new diagnostic methods and technologies that facilitate antibiotic traceability across...
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Absorption of DL-Met from gastrointestinal tract of weaned pigs is higher than for MHA-FA
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In a recent panel with Farm Journal, three experts shared their insights on African Swine Fever and the lessons learned from the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Gordon Spronk (President of Pipestone Veterinary Services) mentioned that “ASF continues to spread across the globe. It was a threat when it was found in the world’s largest swine population in China and continues to be a threat now.”
Spronk added: “Our vision is to keep it out of our...
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INTRODUCTION Previous studies (Widmer e al., 2008; Kim et al., 2009; Jacela et al., 2010) have measured metabolizable energy (ME) and standardized ileal digestible (SID) amino acid (AA) content in high-protein distillers dried grains (HP-DDG) produced using the old front-end fractionation processes, and these data were used in developing nutrient composition tables in NRC (2012). These nutritional composition values appeared to be accurate for previous HP-DDG sources because...
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Fermentation products of Cordyceps militaris enhance performance and modulate immune response of weaned piglets
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INTRODUCTION For any technology to gain industry-wide adoption, it must provide value to all segments of the industry and have minimal associated risks. Immunological castration (Improvest, Zoetis Inc., Kalamazoo, MI, GnRF analog-diphtheria toxoid conjugate ) provides an effective alternative to physical castration for reducing boar odor of intact male pigs while improving lean deposition compared with physically castrated ( PC ) barrows. The effects...
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Introduction In the pork industry, the trend towards producing lean carcasses is still occurring, concurrently with a demand from certain specific markets for pork products with high intramuscular fat (IMF) in an attempt to ensure palatability. A positive effect of IMF content on the eating quality of pork has been reported by a number of authors (Castell, 1994; Fernandes et al., 1999; Brewer et al., 2001)....
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Summary Although metabolic modifiers that require daily injection, such as porcine somatotropin, are available for the Australian pork industry, producers are interested in the potential of orally administered compounds to improve body composition, especially to reduce fat depth. The purpose of this review is to discuss dietary additives that can be used to manipulate growth, body composition or meat quality in growing pigs, viz., ractopamine,...
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1. Introduction Olive (Olea europaea) cultivation plays an important economic and social role in the Mediterranean region. In 2014 more than 1.74, 0.29, and 0.21 million tons of olive oil were produced in Spain, Italy, and Greece, respectively [1]. It is concluded that olive oil extraction produces a high quantity of olive by-products (pulp or cake), which represents a severe environmental problem [2]. Therefore, utilization of these residues in the diets of farm animals...
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Absorption of DL-Met from gastrointestinal tract of weaned pigs is higher than for MHA-FA
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1. Introduction In April 2009, Edgar Hernández, a four year-old boy from La Gloria, El Perote in Veracruz, Mexico, was declared the first human infected with a new kind of virus that caused a type of pneumonia or severe flu. Within a few days, other residents from the same community presented the symptoms of the new disease. Since the village is 8.5 kilometers far from Carroll Farms –a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, one of the major US swine producer–, it was...
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Peter Davies (University of Minnesota) shared insights on how to improve the communication on this important topic during the 2018 NIAA Antibiotic Symposium....
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Fermentation products of Cordyceps militaris enhance performance and modulate immune response of weaned piglets
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Introduction Cashew bagasse bran (CBB) is characterized as a medium-value fiber and low-energy food containing 88.70% dry matter, 4.15% ether extract, 14% crude protein, 12.07% crude fiber, 1,123 kcal/kg of digestible energy, and 1,051 kcal/kg of metabolizable energy (Farias et al., 2008). It is a byproduct of the juice and cashew processing industry; after drying and ground, CBB can be used in animal feed (Farias et al., 2008). The states of Ceará, Piauí,...
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INTRODUCTION Antimicrobial agents are essential for the treatment and control of bacterial infections. Therefore, the increasing antimicrobial resistance observed worldwide in bacteria isolated from humans and animals is a matter of extreme concern (FAO/WHO/OIE 2008). The selection of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in human medicine, mainly in hospital settings, directly affects the success of the treatment of critical patients (WHO 2001). Moreover, the intensification of...
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Introduction More than 60% of pigs are reared outdoors in Uruguay, with variable participation of pastures in feed (DIEA, 2007). Outdoor production systems with pastures are becoming attractive for consumers, mainly due to environmental sustainability and social benefits of the sector as well as the initial low cost of the production system (Leite et al., 2001). In addition, outdoor rotation systems have been reported to be of interest in South America because they have been...
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Introduction The biodiesel industry from fatty sources generates glycerin, a by-product that can be used as an excellent source of energy for growing pigs. In Colombia, the installed capacity of biodiesel production was of 505.708 t in 2013 (1). Each liter of biodiesel generates approximately 79 g of crude glycerin (2), consequently, with the installed capacity, the country will produce annually around of 51940 t of crude glycerin (80% glycerol) with a density of 1.3 g/m...
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