Testing of pig respiratory lesions at the slaughterhouse. Relevance in farm monitoring and practical application

Slaughterhouse testing has many objectives:At farm level, the tests can detect or confirm disease while orienting the diagnosis. The tests provide strong indicators of health status across a group of farms. They can also be used in experimental research.The reliability of the results obtained depends both on the quality of the readings taken and the relevance of the monitoringplan. It is therefore important to use standardised rating methods and to take the sampling scheme into account when interpreting the results.