Documentations

Consumers of fresh pork and charcuterie products : who are they ? Data driven insight

Provide insight into the socioprofessional characteristics of consumers of fresh pork and charcuterie products. The population categories who eat the most pork are mainly lower income and rural households. Wealthier…

Cartographie des flux de viande à l'aval de la filière porcine : de la sortie des abattoirs à la mise à disposition du consommateur final

Entre l'abattage et la mise à disposition du consommateur final, la viande de porc transite par des opérateurs par des opérateurs industriels et commerciaux, suivant de nombreux circuits, pour se…

Campylobacter hazard in the pork food chain : a quantitative and qualitative approach

Campylobacteriosis is the most frequently reported zoonotic disease in humans in EU with 175,561 reported confirmed cases in 2006. Pigs are known to be largely contaminated by Campylobacter in farms,…

Recommendations and calculations of digestible phosphorus input from raw feed and phytases

This article describes the methods and procedures for calculating pig diet needs and supply through raw feed and phytases. The calculation is made differently according to the plant phytase activity…

Pig production processed and marketed on-farm; part one : technical characteristics of the pig-farms

This work corresponds to a clarification of a typology of the pig-farms processing and marketing their pigs on farm and in theevaluation of their profitability in 2007. The objective is…

What are the dosage feed pump practices employed in pig farming ?

Among the many different drug administration routes, oral administration via drinking water makes it possible to efficiently treatdiseases early on, as soon as the initial symptoms arise. However, this administration…

Environmental management of pig-farming systems. a proposed set of indicators

The pork production industry faces a number of environmental challenges, and there is pressure on pig farms to internalize how environmental externalities are managed by deploying environmental management tools. A…

Développement des biocarburants : conséquences économiques pour la production porcine

L’accélération de la production de biocarburants de première génération produits à partir de céréales et d’oléagineux dans de grands bassins de production végétale dans le monde constitue un enjeu majeur…

La production et les flux de porcelets en France

L’étude vise à décrire et analyser les conditions de production et d’échanges des porcelets en France. La première partie présente les types d’élevages produisant et engraissant des porcelets, leur importance…

Pig production processed and marketed on-farm Economic characteristics

A system has been developed that profiles farms according to their economic profitability. The system has identified three groups on the basis of the percentages of pigs processed on-farm. Producing,…

Work patterns in pig farming

This review reports on the results of various surveys conducted by the IFIP and its partners covering a number of aspects of the use of manual labour in pig farms.…

Potential water and energy savings for slaughterhouses

This first study led by the IFIP in tandem with the ADIV and three pork-sector companies opens up perspectives for potentialwater and energy savings according to the processes or unit…