1. GMP microbiology for meat industry
2. Commercial Norms for meat products
3. EUROP Carcass Classification System

  
Romanian meat market suffers not only because of insufficient local pig production, but also because of the low quality of our pigs. Industry is the first needing carcasses with high lean meat content that allows high yields, lower production costs and, accordingly, reduced prices of its meat products.

Present pig livestock is more than 80% in the backyard farms, characterized by inferior genetics, inadequate nutrition and obsolete technology. All translate into extreme variability of the carcasses whose fat content is 20-30% higher than in the developed countries.

So, we need a quick improvement of animal quality, which implies serious investments in the whole livestock industry. Those investments will be done when the market pays quality, not only quantity (as today).

EUROP grading System is mandatory in the whole European Union and in some of the candidate countries and it allows the objective estimation of the lean meat content and, accordingly, the correct payment to the farmers. Its implementation generated in all these regions a rapid progress of the pig quality, as well as the elimination of the permanent debates between slaughterhouses and farmers, each of them unsatisfied of the price established through subjective evaluation.

For further information visit Carcass Classification Commission website www.ccceurop.ro