A comment on the paper 'A comparison between lesions found during meat inspection of finishing pigs raised under organic/free-range conditions and conventional indoor conditions' by Alban et al. 2015. Issue 1 (December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sørensen, Jan
• Is Part Of: Porcine health management. Volume 2:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 2
• Publication Date: 2016-12
• Subjects: Pig health -- Production system -- Meat inspection; Swine -- Health -- Periodicals; Swine -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Periodicals; 636.4089
• DOI: 10.1186/s40813-016-0031-4
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2055-5660

Abstract

Abstract This is a critical comment on a paper published in Porcine Health Management in 2015, presenting a comparison between lesions from meat inspection at one abattoir on slaughter pigs classified in to two different production forms: organic/free-range conditions and conventional indoor conditions. The conclusion made by the paper that 13 lesion types has a higher prevalence in organic/free-range pigs and 4 lesion types occurred less frequently in organic/free-range finishers compared to conventional finishers is correct except that 5 (instead of 4) lesion types occurred less frequently in organic/free-range finishers. However, these five types of lesions represent 74 % of all lesions recorded among conventional indoor, conventional free-range and organic pigs in one slaughter house from October 1 2012 to September 26 2013.