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Identification of horses as a possible factor of safety of horse meat

mr. Nenad Cukon, dr.med.vet
Ingeborg Franković,
Alen Babić, ; Veterinarska ambulanta Pazin d.o.o., Pazin


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Abstract

Horse meat can be a valuable substitute for beef in cookery, firstly because of its chemical composition, i.e., the fact that due to low
content of fat (3%) horse meat is easy to digest and it is suitable even for a diet. The goal of this paper was to determine the factors
which can affect the safety of horse meat, so there was considered legislation on transportation of equidae and traceability and on
one example from the practice there was performed simulation of control of delivery of horses to slaughterhouse processing into an
approved slaughtering facility for equidae for the period of one calendar year. A conclusion was made from the obtained results that
by applying of the Regulation for identification and registration of equidae (ANON, 2009) there was established an uninterrupted
traceability from the farm of birth to slaughtering facility and shipments were accompanied by the information on the food chain. A
problem could appear by opening of the market toward the EU, from the aspect of unevenness of the approach of implementation of
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 504/2008 in member countries of the EU, due to which there is a need for strengthening the capacity
in terms of marking and identification of equidae in the Republic of Croatia and creating a base of equidae migration modeled after
the one for cattle.

Keywords

identification and marking of horses; horse meat; safety of horse meat

Hrčak ID:

104922

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/104922

Publication date:

29.4.2013.

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