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Table 2 Description of condemned cattle according to sex, production type and age category

From: Defining syndromes using cattle meat inspection data for syndromic surveillance purposes: a statistical approach with the 2005–2010 data from ten French slaughterhouses

  

Number of condemned cattle1

Percentage of condemnations (%)

Sex

Female

266,795

69.99

 

Castrated male

17,075

4.48

 

Non-castrated male

97,316

25.53

Production type

Dairy

134,445

35.27

 

Mixed

77,999

20.46

 

Beef

168,742

44.27

Age category

[0;8 months old)

8,475

2.22

 

[8;24 months old)

77,370

20.3

 

[2;3.5 years old)

50,545

13.26

 

[3.5;5 years old)

52,406

13.75

 

[5;10 years old)

142,462

37.37

 

≥10 years old

49,928

13.1

  1. 1 Condemned cattle= cattle with at least one portion of the carcass condemned.