Assessment of the sanitory impact of two transport practices not provided for by the Regulation (EC) 2017/1981

Commission Regulation (EC) 2017/1981 sets out the necessary conditions for the transportation of partially cooled carcasses (with core temperature between 7°C and 15°C), but it does not take into account the common practices of French beef and pork meat sectors, such as transporting multiple products (meat cuts and/or offal in the same compartment as carcasses) or multi-loading transports (carcasses loaded from more than one slaughterhouse per transport) with partially cooled carcasses. As part of European negotiations, Ifip and Idele were mandated by Culture Viande to conduct an experimental study to assess the impact of transporting partially cooled carcasses in the context of multiloading (MC) transport for beef and multi-product transport (MP) for pork and beef. These practices, although not specifically covered by the regulation, are commonly used in the French beef and pork meat sector.