Written answers
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Animal Slaughtering Data
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 951, 953, 958 and 961 of 26 March 2019, the number of occasions on which inspectors from his Department identified torn flanks on carcases; when a flank is torn, if the carcase is graded manually in view of the impact this would have on the mechanical grading of conformation of the carcase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17838/19]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Torn flanks were identified by Beef Carcase Classification inspectors on less than 1% of carcasses inspected (0.82%).
In the initial calibration of the mechanical classification system, torn carcasses formed part of the set of carcases used to calibrate the machine and, as a result, the mechanical classification system is capable of classifying a carcase with a torn flank with the same degree of accuracy as a carcase without a torn flank.
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