Assessment of quality of pig carcasses in Ukraine according to national and European classification
Дата
2014
Автори
Kravchenko, O. I.
Loza, Arthur
Getya, A. A.
Кравченко, Оксана Іванівна
Гетя, Андрій Анатолійович
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Wageningen Academic Publishers
Анотація
The existing Ukrainian system of classification of pork carcasses was established in the Soviet Union. At
slaughterhouses conducted a visual assessment of the degree of muscles development, measure of carcass
weight and back fat thickness (6-7 thoracic vertebrae), but sex of an animal is not considered as well as lean
meat percentage. At the slaughterhouse ‘Yubileinyi’, Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, 160 hybrid pigs
were slaughtered (Landrace x Yorkshire x Peitrain, Yorkshire x Landrace x Duroc) and evaluated according
to both Ukrainian and European classification. For EUROP assessment the French device CGM was used
which involves measuring between.last 3 and 4 thoracic vertebrae. According to Ukrainian classification all
160 carcasses were rated as the second category. The second category includes carcasses with weight from
47 to 102 kg and the thickness of fat from 10 to 30 mm at the level of 6-7 thoracic vertebrae. Test assessment
of carcasses according to European system has the following classification: 39 heads - class S, 88 heads
- class E, 28 heads - class U and 5 heads - class R. It was determined that the biggest part of slaughtered
pigs were castrated; 116 heads, or 72.5%. Slaughtered female have the highest MLD thickness (63.2±0.33
mm) and lean meat percentage (60.52±0.38%) at the same time have the thinner back fat (14,9±0,13 mm).
In whole animal group lean meat percentage was 58.14±0.26%. Nowadays in Ukraine conducted work from
the adaptation and implementation of the assessment system and payment of carcasses at slaughterhouses
based on lean meat percentage of the carcasses.
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Ключові слова
pork carcasses, classification, EUROP, MLD
Бібліографічний опис
Kravchenko O., Loza A., Getya A. Assessment of quality of pig carcasses in Ukraine according to national and European classification//Book of Abstracts of the 65th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science. - No.20 (2014)- P.428.