Economic loss of main causes of total condemnation in bovine carcasses in slaughterhouse in the state of Mato Grosso from 2007 to 2017. Case report

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze and determine the economic loss of the main causes of total condemnation of bovine carcasses in slaughterhouses under SIF inspection for the state of Mato Grosso from 2007 to 2017. Among the brazilian federative units, stands out the state of Mato Grosso which slaughtered 48,16 million cattle in the period from 2007 to 2017, corresponds to 18,75% of the national total. The economic loss was determined by multiplying the number of carcasses condemned totally by the average beef yield per carcass (which was 16 arrobas) by the arroba average annual price of beef meat. The main cause of the cases of condemnation total was the contamination and the economic loss was R$ 403,49 million. The factors that are associated with the occurrence of total condemnations of bovine carcasses by contamination are inadequate animal fasting time during the pre-slaughter stage, inadequate animal and carcass washing, and operations failures bleeding, skinning, and evisceration of the carcass. Finally, the other causes were emphysema (R$ 123,90 million), anemic infarction (R$ 104,98 million), food aspiration (R$ 88,04 million) and urinary cyst (R$ 72,03 million).