Small-scale and mobile slaughter - Digital image transfer
Digital image transfer at veterinary inspection in connection with slaughter
The project aimed to make the official control at slaughter of domestic livestock and game handling more efficient. The aim was to:
- Define the practical and technical needs with regard to image transfer for veterinary inspection at slaughter.
- Inventory technical solutions on the Swedish market.
- Assess the reliability if inspections with such solutions.
- Assess the technical functionality of such solutions and the general consequences for food safety, biosecurity and animal welfare.
The project was a scientific collaboration with RISE Research Institutes of Swedenand the Swedish National Food Agency. Collaboration also took place with slaughter companies. The project was conducted on commission from the National Food Agency (Moderniserad köttbesiktning vid slakt och vilthantering).
Participants at the department werer doctoral student Viktor Almqvist, associate professor Jan Hultgren and professor Lotta Berg.
The project started in August 2018 and finished in December 2020. Publication continued in 2021. In November 2021, Viktor Almqvist defended his doctoral dissertation "Who you gonna call? Examining the possibilities of remote veterinary meat inspection.
Publications
Almqvist, V., 2021. Who you gonna call? Examining the possibilities of remote veterinary meat inspection. SLU, Uppsala. Doktorsavhandling, https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/25860/.
Almqvist, V., Berg, C., Hultgren, J., 2021. Reliability of remote post-mortem veterinary meat inspections in pigs using augmented-reality live-stream video software. Food Control, Volume 125, July 2021, 107940.
Hultgren, J., 2020. Distansbesiktning av slaktkroppar. Presentation vid nationell träff för djurskyddsansvariga vid svenska slakterier, 7 oktober 2020.
Hultgren, J., Almqvist, V., Berg, C., 2020. Moderniserad köttbesiktning vid slakt och vilthantering (Modernized meat inspection at slaughter and game handling). SLU, Inst. För husdjurens miljö och hälsa, Rapport 46.
Hultgren, J., Berg, C., Schiffer, K.J. och Algers, B., 2018. On-farm slaughter of cattle – prospects for efficient veterinary inspection and good animal welfare. Book of abstracts, Nordic Meeting on the Modernisation of Meat Control and Animal Welfare Inspection at slaughterhouses, Uppsala, Sweden, 7-8 March 2018, abstract, p. 16.