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

Table 3 Number and proportion of cattle concerned by condemned portions and reasons for condemnation

	Number of animals	Percentage of condemnations (%)
Condemned portion
Liver	257,377	67.52
Kidneys	73,310	19.23
Lungs	68,976	18.10
Viscera	57,300	15.03
Part of the carcass	48,841	12.81
Heart	38,515	10.10
Head	29,993	7.87
Udder	20,155	5.29
Tongue	14,728	3.86
Whole carcass	13,074	3.43
Reason for condemnation
Abscess	89,795	18.76
Liver fluke	72,059	15.06
Preventive reason for condemnation¹	45,719	9.55
Sclerosis	38,621	8.07
Macular telangiectasia	31,639	6.61
Nephritis	29,290	6.12
Other reason for condemnation²	19,921	4.16
Cyst	16,951	3.54
Peritonitis	13,753	2.87
Bronchopneumonia	13,442	2.81
Infiltration	13,252	2.77
Arthritis	11,362	2.37
Fecal contamination	11,243	2.35
Steatosis	10,718	2.24
Other deterioration³	10,482	2.19
Lung emphysema	8,432	1.76
Pericarditis	8,282	1.73
Myopathy	7,780	1.63
Meat with abnormal maturation	5,558	1.16
Local muscular cysticercosis	5,132	1.07

^{1 “}Preventive reason for condemnation” was assigned to carcass portion/organ that was not submitted for a post-mortem inspection or for offal that was condemned on the slaughter line when the carcass and its offal were detained.
^{2 “}Other reason for condemnation” is not the result of the merging of existing reasons for condemnation. This was a possible reason for condemnation voluntarily chosen by an official inspector.
³ “Other deterioration” included hemorrhagic lesions of lungs or muscles linked to problems in the slaughtering process; superficial and deep putrefaction.
Only reasons for condemnation and portions representing at least 1% of the animals are presented. Each animal can have more than one portion of the carcass condemned but each part of the carcass can be linked to only one reason for condemnation.

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