Below is a list of Disease and Defect Condition Change Requests
Disease and Defect Condition Change Requests
Request No. | Date | Submitted By | Company | Type | Change | Reason | Status | Details |
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10056 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Petfood to be added as a disposition in the attribute value / data range section of the standard | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10055 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Removed/stripped be added as a disposition in the attribute value / data range section of the standard | An example is the removal of a rib or the stripping of the pleura. Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10054 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Skinned be added as a disposition in the attribute value / data range section of the standard | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10053 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | The addition of coding to allow a value to be added to the number of offal parts to allow for correct data collection in the of a single offal item being condemned. | An example of this is when one of the two kidneys is condemned due to contamination. Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10052 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Melanosis to be added as an attribute for Lungs | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10051 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Abscess to be added as an attribute for Green Offal | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10050 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Eosinophilic myositis to be added as an attribute for cheek | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10049 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Abscess to be added as an attribute for Spleen and Head | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10048 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Scarring to be added as an attribute for Tongue | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10047 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Contamination to be added as an attribute for Carcase, Thick Skirt and the red offal parts (Liver, Lung, Kidney, Spleen, Heart) | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10046 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Other to be added as an attribute for Tongue and Cheek | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10045 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Leg to be added as a supply chain product | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10044 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Side to be added as a supply chain product | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10043 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Pluck to be added as a colloquial name for red offal | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Submitted | Open |
10042 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Aorta to be added as a supply chain product | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified with the attributes abscess, contamination, dropped and Non-Halal. | Submitted | Open |
10041 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Tendons to be added as a supply chain product | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified with the attributes abscess, contamination, dropped and Non-Halal. | Submitted | Open |
10040 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Tail to be added as a supply chain product | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified with the attributed abscess, contamination and dropped. | Submitted | Open |
10039 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Lips to be added as a supply chain product | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified with the attributes abscess, contamination, dropped, Non-Halal and other. | Submitted | Open |
10038 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Edit | Green Offal to be broken down to its offal parts | Green offal to be broken down to its offal parts of Small intestine, omasum, pillar tripe, tripe, abomasum, honeycomb, large intestine, weasand/oesophagus. Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified with the attributes of associated enteritis, abscess and contamination | Submitted | Open |
10037 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Pericardium to be added as a supply chain product | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified with the attributes pericarditis and contamination | Submitted | Open |
10036 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Thin Skirt to be added as a supply chain product | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified with the attributes pleurisy and contamination | Submitted | Open |
10035 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Trachea / Windpipe to be added as a supply chain product | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified with the attributes blood inhalation and contamination | Submitted | Open |
10034 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Prolapse to be added as an attribute to the Standard | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Approved | Open |
10033 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Orchitis to be added as an attribute to the Standard | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Approved | Open |
10032 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Hernia to be added as an attribute to the Standard | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Approved | Open |
10031 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Tail bite to be added as an attribute to the Standard | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Hold | Open |
10030 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Emergency kill to be added as an attribute to the Standard | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Approved | Open |
10029 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Softside to be added as an attribute to the Standard with the colloquial name backbone removed | When the splitting of the carcase is not even this processing defect occurs. Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Denied | Open |
10028 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Offal not presented to be added as a defect attribute | Offal must be presented for post-mortem inspection to occur. This is a processing defect to be added to the standard identified through work with the pork industry as a gap in the Standard | Approved | Open |
10027 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Milk spots to be added as a colloquial name for hepatitis | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Approved | Open |
10026 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Exotic / Notifiable to be added as an attribute to the Standard | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified and in light of the current disease incursion concerns this provides evidence that exotic and notifiable diseases are considered during meat inspection and animal health disease and defect data collection | Denied | Open |
10025 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Attribute severity be added to the attribute 'Enteritis' to allow for the recording of Peritonitis, Colitis and Ileitis | Through work with the pork industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Approved | Open |
10024 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Non-Halal to be added as an attribute to the Standard | When producing Halal product is the animal is not correctly stunned and slaughtered then the product if labelled as Non-Halal. Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Denied | Open |
10023 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Attribute severity be added to the attribute 'Other' to allow for a split of Pathology/Disease and Defect | It would be beneficial to have a attribute severity apply to 'Other' to allow it to be broken down to 'Pathology Other' and 'Defect Other'. Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified. | Approved | Open |
10022 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Attribute severity be added to the attribute 'Pregnancy' to allow for pregnancy grading by trimester | Through adoption work with the processing industry this gap in the Standard has been identified | Approved | Open |
10021 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Edit | Contamination as an attribute should be amended to be a general attribute with an attribute severity | Currently contamination is an attribute itself however only used for Tongue, Tongue Root, Cheek and Head. Contamination is otherwise broken down into bile, faecal, hair, ingesta, milk and urine contamination. Some companies are recording contamination generally and other some or all of the different types of contamination. It is recommended that for a better structure to the standard and to facilitate more accurate data analysis that 'contamination' be the attribute and attribute severity be given to the types of contamination listed in the standard currently with the addition of hide and overfull gut (the later being used by the pork industry). | Approved | Open |
10020 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Dropped to be added as an attribute to the Standard | Carcases and product can be dropped during processing. This can result in trimming or condemnation due to the food safety risk of the product potentially being contaminated from touching the floor. | Approved | Open |
10019 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | Cadnium (liver and kidneys) to be added as an attribute to the Standard | Cadnium is a heavy metal that accumulates in the liver and kidneys of cattle and sheep. Some export markets have lower acceptable levels of cadnuim in offal products and therefor due to age parameters liver and kidneys can be condemned due to this market access requirement. | Approved | Open |
10018 | 22-07-31 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services | Addition | No Enucleation (kidneys) to be added as a defect attribute to the Standard | When kidneys are not correctly prepared for post-mortem inspection they are required to be condemned. This is a processing defect to be added to the standard | Approved | Open |
10017 | 22-01-19 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services Pty Ltd | Deletion | Deletion of 'Trim' from the attributes list | Trim is a disposition, not a disease or defect. Trim is also already included in the disposition list. | Submitted | Open |
10016 | 22-01-11 | Elizabeth Wilcock | Food and Veterinary Services Pty Ltd | Addition | Viable Liver Fluke need to be added to the standard. | Liver fluke is currently in the standard and is used by inspectors when liver fluke scaring is evident at inspection. However this includes previously infections of liver fluke where the animal has been successfully treated and the infection is no longer active. To provide producers with more information about whether the infection is active Viable Liver Fluke should be added to the standard. It should be noted that there is not an expectation that meat inspectors hunt for fluke but when they do see fluke during inspection it would be expected that they select this option. | Submitted | Open |
10015 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Ovine Johne's disease - Need code | If intestines and mesentery are condemned as a suspect OJD infection. Confirmation of OJD only. Bacterial infection that causes enteritis and lymphadenitis, leading to weight | Approved | Open |
10014 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Oving - Lung worm - Need Code | Dictyocaulus filarial adults live mainly in the airways (bronchi) in the lung. Mulleuris capillaris develop in the tissue of the lungs. Lungs are condemned. | Approved | Open |
10013 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Ovine - Fever/ septicaemia - Need Code for Post Mortem. | Carcases condemned. Multiple cases may indicate an emergency animal disease (EAD). | Approved | Open |
10012 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Ovine - Bladder worm - Need Code | Cysticercus tenuicollis are seen as cysts in the viscera and the carcase. These cysts are trimmed, and the material condemned. | Approved | Open |
10011 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Ovine - Rib fractures - Need code. | Mostly found in SA and usually seen as healed fractures in lambs. Production losses on farm. | Approved | Open |
10010 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Sarcocystis - Need code. | Sarcocystis forms cysts in the muscles of sheep and goats. It is usually seen as 'white grains' on the weasand and in the thoracic cavity. The weasand is condemned, and affected carcase parts are condemned. | Approved | Open |
10009 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Knotty gut - Need code. | Knotty gut (pimply gut) caused by the nodule worm and the runners condemned. | Submitted | Open |
10008 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Vaccine lesions -Need codes for carcase pcices as well as whole carcase | The result of an infection at a vaccination site or a reaction to the vaccine and can be found anywhere in a carcase. The lesion and the surrounding flesh is trimmed | Submitted | Open |
10007 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Dog Bite - Need codes for dogs bits on carcase pices as well as whole carcase | Welfare issue. Dog bites to the carcase are trimmed on the retain rail if there is an associated infection in the limb and/or carcase is condemned. | Hold | Open |
10006 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Bruising - When extra trimming is required. Need code for whole carcase | Trimming can be whole carcase not just piece. | Submitted | Open |
10005 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Sheep measles (Ovis) - Need code for carcase and other body parts. | Cysticercus ovis causes cysts in the carcase and viscera. If there are more than 5 cysts in the carcase it is said to have a general infestation and is condemned. Less than 5 cysts in the musculature and the cysts are trimmed. | Approved | Open |
10004 | 21-05-27 | Clive Richardson | MINTRAC | Addition | Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) or cheesy gland code needed for whole carcase | Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) causes abscesses and with a systemic infection the carcase and offal are condemned. With less extensive forms the viscera is condemned and the infected parts of the carcase are trimmed. | Approved | Open |
10003 | 21-05-26 | Clayton Williams | JBS Australia | Addition | Need to add codes for a scale for Grass Seeds. Such as Grass Seeds, Grass Seeds 2 and Grass Seeds 3 for Light, Medium and Heavy. Also need to create code for whole carcase not just carcase piece. | For small stock the inspector assigns the condition to the carcase, not to a carcase piece. | Approved | Open |
10002 | 21-05-26 | Clayton Williams | JBS Australia | Addition | Create industry code for Whole Carcase Arthritis. | For small stock the inspector assigns the condition to the carcase, not to a carcase piece. | Approved | Open |
10001 | 21-05-26 | Clayton Williams | JBS Australia | Addition | Create industry code for Whole Carcase Fracture | For small stock the inspector assigns the condition to the carcase, not to a carcase piece. | Approved | Open |