Survey on the Prevalence of Trichinella in Pigs
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Regulation (EC) 2075/2005 lays down specific rules on the official controls for Trichinella in meat. All domestic pigs and horses slaughtered for human consumption must be sampled for Trichinella as part of the postmortem inspection.
The FSAI conducted a survey to investigate the prevalence of Trichinella in pigs slaughtered in low throughput pig slaughterhouses. From August 2007 to January 2009, a total of 10,247 samples were taken and analysed for Trichinella in 33 slaughterhouses supervised by the local authority veterinary service. There were no positive samples detected during the survey. Since the conclusion of the FSAI Trichinella survey, Trichinella sampling and analysis have continued in local authority supervised slaughterhouses.
Survey on the prevalence of Trichinella in pigs in local authority supervised slaughterhouses.