Influência do manejo no pré-abate de bovinos na qualidade do produto final (carcaça): uma visão forense no âmbito frigorífico

Abstract

With the increase in demand for meat globally, Brazil is now taking a leading role on the world stage, combined with this, the reformula on of legisla on regarding animal abuse and welfare that governs the ca le slaughter house sector, starts to be looked at with a view to the use of good practices in pre-slaughter management, aiming to obtain products of better final quality and comply with current legislation and the desires of the consumer market, to comply with humane slaughter legislation, that is, minimizing animal suffering and providing adequate euthanasia to the animal. In this scenario, this work enters establishments beef slaughter house located in the city of Marabá/PA, which are under official inspection, to collect data on the pre-slaughter management of cattle, where a relationship was established between management in relation to the final quality of the carcass and the prevalence of animal abuse. By observing the housing of the animals in the pens, fasting time and water diet, driving the animals, use of electrified poles to drive the animals, stunning efficiency, bleeding time, prevalence of injuries to the carcass, prevalence of cadaveric stiffness, dosage of cortisol and glucose (serological) and measurement of the pH of carcasses after cooling, where a correlation was established between pre-slaughter management, cadaveric and biochemical traces of the carcass and the prevalence of mistreatment in handling, which made it possible to create a spreadsheet indicating the prevalence of animal mistreatment in the forensic field. Based on the traces collected, the tabulated observation spreadsheet will, in the end, assist the judicial expert, official or ad hoc, in the assertive assessment of the prevalence of animal abuse in cattle slaughterhouse establishments.