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Food Safety, Food safety and suitability research, Food risk assessment
This document describes a scientific evaluation of the likely contribution of routine post
mortem examination of selected lymph nodes of cattle slaughtered in New Zealand to
food safety and to food suitability. Currently all carcass lymph nodes are required to be
examined by intensive examination while the mesenteric lymph nodes are examined by
viewing and palpation. In addition to questions over food safety aspects, there is scientific consensus that intensive routine examination of lymph nodes is likely to increase crosscontamination of some tissues.
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