Abstract:
This study identified the common causes of condemnation of slaughtered cattle and goat in a commercial
abattoir in Bangladesh. A total of 8,604 cattle and 27,699 goats were slaughtered for the period of July 2007 to
June 2008. All the procedures of standard abattoir were followed to get hygienic meat. Ante-mortem
examination and postmortem inspection was done with due attention. In cattle liver and lungs are first list
organs for condemnation and incidence of affection is 78% in liver and 19.3% in lungs. Fascioliasis is the
leading cause of liver condemnation in cattle (75.5%). Hydatidosis affection found both in liver and lungs but
the incidence rate is higher in lungs. Abscess is also a disease responsible for organ condemnation particularly
in liver (1.4%), lungs (6.1%) and kidneys (I. I%). In goats, a total of 7,278 organs were condemned due to
several diseases or conditions namely fascioliasis, hydatidosis, cysticercosis, abscess, pnemonia and tumor.
Among them 5,55 I cases were liver (76.3%) and 1,296 cases were lungs (17.8%). Fascioliasis is the leading
cause of liver condemnation in goat (94.8%) where pneumonia is for lungs condemnation (69.5%) in goat.
However hydatidosis cause both liver (4.6%) and lungs (23.2%) damage at the point of condemnation. Liver,
lungs and kidneys abscess are responsible for organ condemnation. Cysticercosis (16.3%), gluteal abscess
(15.6%) and grass seed poisoning (6.4%) are also the causal factors of condemnation. The results suggested that
the highest incidence of organ condemnation is found in liver and lungs caused by fascioliasis and pnemonia in
cattle and goats respectively and grass seed poisoning is the single cause for whole carcass condemnation in
goat. The results of the present study concluded that liver and lungs are organs of various affections and
mandatory to condemn.
