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Table 1 Codes for documentation of findings in post-mortem inspections of pig carcasses

From: Evaluating remote post-mortem veterinary meat inspections on pig carcasses using pre-recorded video material

Code

Finding

Code

Finding

Code

Finding

06

Atypical mycobacteriosis

40

Old injury

76

Pleuritis and/or endocarditis

18

Erysipelas

42

Recent injury

78

Pleuritis and peritonitis

19

Systemic infectious disease

48

Emaciation

84

Parasitic liver lesions, “white spots”

26

Tumour

52

Other findingb

88

Other liver lesions

30

Abscess

56

Kidney lesion

999

No findings

32

Arthritis

58

Tail lesion

FA

Perceived falsely arrested

34

Abnormal appearance

62

Swine enzootic pneumonia

TC

Totally condemned

36

PSEa

64

Other pneumonia

  

38

Fatty liver

72

Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia

  
  1. a Quality condition characterised by pale, soft and exudative meat
  2. b Code used to denote conditions with no individual code, in this study predominantly splenic torsion
  3. The list of findings is modified from instructions for meat inspection in Sweden [6] by the addition of codes FA, ‘perceived false arrest’; TC, ‘totally condemned’; 56, ‘kidney lesion’; and code 999 to denote ‘no findings’