The aim of research is to conduct veterinary and sanitary control of meat, offal and to assess the safety of food raw materials in the conditions of a modern meat processing plant. Research was conducted from 2022 to 2023 at the State Autonomous Institution of the Northern Trans-Urals, at the meat-packing plant OOO Soglasie (Tyumen Region). 234,622 pig carcasses and 7,124 cattle carcasses were admitted to veterinary inspection, 1,680 samples of meat and offal taken from pigs and cattle were also examined. The following methods were used: visual inspection, reactions with copper sulfide (CuSO4), peroxidase tests, determination of the pH of the medium and a formol reaction. Studies have shown that out of 1807 (2022) and 1636 (2023) samples of meat and offal obtained from pig slaughter, poor quality meat and offal was determined (in 29.0 and 31.9 % of samples, respectively). In 2022, some pigs were slaughtered in a moribund state (20.2 %), with pathological processes of various etiologies – in 79.8% of cases, in 2023 – 14.9 % of cases – in a moribund state and 85.1 % – with various pathological processes. When analyzing and assessing the quality of meat and offal obtained from slaughtering cattle, in 2022 out of 181 samples and in 2023 out of 200 samples, poor quality meat and offal was found in 53.03 % and 53.5 % of cases, respectively. The lowest percentage of positive samples was for pork – 32.5 % (2022) and beef – 32.9 % (2023). When assessing the quality of meat and offal obtained from pig slaughter, the largest number of deviations was found in 2022 in June (3.3 %), July (3.5 %) and August (3.7 %) and in 2023 in April (3.8 %), June (4.0 %), July (4.2 %) and August (4.5 %), this factor indicates a violation of the microclimate parameters in the summer at the veterinary and sanitary inspection facility and thereby negatively affects the physiological state of animals.
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