The Use of Pork from Entire Male and Immunocastrated Pigs for Meat Products—An Overview with Recommendations
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Škrlep, Martin
Tomaševic, Igor
Mörlein, Daniel
Novakovic, Saša
Egea, Macarena
Garrido, María Dolores
Linares, María Belén
Peñaranda, Irene
Aluwé, Marijke
Font-i-Furnols, Maria
Fecha de publicación
2020-09-26ISSN
2076-2615
Resumen
Due to the strong public initiative in Europe and increased regulator focus to mitigate pain, surgical castration of pigs is being gradually abandoned, while the importance of other sex categories like entire males (EM) and immunocastrates (IC) increases. Although beneficial for animal welfare and economics, their use also brings forward several quality problems. Besides the occurrence of boar taint in EM, these include excessive carcass leanness, softer fat, meat color and pH deviations, inferior water holding capacity and increased meat toughness. In this paper, the raw material differences between the male sex categories and their influence on product quality are reviewed, and possible solutions are presented. Using EM for dried or thermally processed products may result in lower processing yields and inferior sensory quality, which may partially be prevented by applying specific processing adaptations. Immunocastration is a viable solution, especially when prolonging the vaccination to slaughter interval. Low to medium levels of boar taint can be effectively managed in most of the meat products, applying procedures like cooking, microbial inoculation or masking (by spices and especially smoking), while highly tainted material can be valorized only by combining various methods and/or with dilution of the tainted meat.
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English
Materias (CDU)
663/664 - Alimentos y nutrición. Enología. Aceites. Grasas
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26
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MDPI
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Animals
Citación
Škrlep, Martin, Igor Tomašević, Daniel Mörlein, Saša Novaković, Macarena Egea, María Dolores Garrido, María Belén Linares, Irene Peñaranda, Marijke Aluwé, and Maria Font-i-Furnols. 2020. "The Use Of Pork From Entire Male And Immunocastrated Pigs For Meat Products—An Overview With Recommendations". Animals 10 (10): 1754. doi:10.3390/ani10101754.
Número del acuerdo de la subvención
INIA/Programa Estatal de I+D+I orientada a los retos de la sociedad/RTA2017-00039-C02-02/ES/Desarrollo de estrategias tecnológicas que garanticen la calidad sensorial de la carne y productos derivados de cerdos machos enteros y permitan su comercialización en el mercado nacional y de exportación/Class&Mask
EC/COST/CA15215/EU/Innovative approaches in pork production with entire males/IPEMA
Program
Qualitat i Tecnologia Alimentària
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