A5045039824- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Regional Development and Management Studies
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Veterinary Equine Medical Research
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Agriculture and Biological Studies
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Sports Performance and Training
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Environmental Science and Water Management
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Helminth infection and control
- Animal Nutrition and Health
- Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Veterinary Practice and Education Studies
- Global Trade and Competitiveness
- Agricultural and Rural Development Research
University of Osijek
2012-2023
United States Department of Agriculture
2009-2011
Agricultural Institute Osijek
1999-2011
University of Zagreb
2009-2010
Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency
2005-2008
The traditional meat safety system has significantly contributed to public health protection throughout the last century. However, it been recognised that this suffers many flaws – main being its limited ability control currently most important meat-borne hazards. European Food Safety Authority evaluated inspection in context, prioritised hazards and proposed a generic framework for new, risk-based assurance system. aims combine range of preventive measures, applied at farms abattoirs...
The traditional meat inspection system is often found to be inefficient. Meat in European countries a phase of modernisation reflect improvements livestock health and advances understanding safety. key point progress replace the with risk-based inspection, including elements safety assurance (MSAS). Modernisation was launched by Food Safety Authority's (EFSA) opinions recommendations period 2011–2013 consequent amendments EU legislation 2014–2019. For this study, EU-funded RIBMINS COST...
More than a decade ago, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) sparked substantial modernisation effort in traditional meat safety systems Europe by publishing range of EFSA opinions that were followed, from 2014 to 2019, amendments relevant EU legislation. A novel, risk-based assurance system (RB-MSAS) was proposed address latest, most meat-borne hazards and protect human health as well animal welfare. This new framework thought offer advantages with regard combination longitudinal...
Withdrawal periods after antimicrobial treatment have been defined as preventing in meat the presence of residues above maximum residue limits (MRLs). However, errors can lead to MRLs. The RIBMINS COST Action network investigated question how detection and handling are applied different countries, what best practices may be, when balancing consumer safety with EU policy on minimising food waste. Two questionnaires were developed focusing pigs, targeting competent authority business operator....
The purposes of meat inspection have been formulated for more than 100 years as (a) protecting health consumers, (b) maintain the reputation meats in home and export markets, (c) detecting communicable diseases animals before they spread beyond easy control. Today, one would add to protect animal welfare, clarify that consumer includes both chemical biological hazards, food fraud issues reputation. To transform scientific knowledge into modern safety assurance systems (MSAS), risk managers...
Meat inspection (MI) is essential to verify compliance with legal requirements related human and animal health welfare protections. Judgement criteria applied during MI, resulting in condemnation data of importance, among other things, for livestock producers benchmarking reasons. However, although the Inspection Regulation sets out judgement criteria, most are generic, favouring flexibility, but also subjectivity. To address degree variation on total (TC) post-mortem (PMI) finishing pigs,...
Farm breeding of cattle is organized so that the animals are kept in a controlled environment (an closed corner, feeding time, milking workers), where daily animal encounter with familiar sounds, smells, movements and equipment. Any positive or negative change causes certain physiological reactions on it. Negative stimuli (relocation, new technological activities, unidentified sounds people) disrupt homeostasis lead them into state stress. During stress appears central inhibition milk...
Withdrawal periods after treatment with antimicrobials are set to minimise the frequency and concentration of residues in meat from treated pigs. Still, by mistake, pigs can be sent for slaughter too early. How should abattoir respond when a pig producer contacts inform them such mistake? To address this, two questionnaire surveys were undertaken during spring 2022, targeting competent authority (CA) food business operator (FBO) countries in- outside European Union. The results covering...
Withdrawal periods are used to avoid animals being delivered slaughter before the concentration of antimicrobial has declined values below maximum residue limit (MRL). This paper characterises withdrawal in force for oxytetracycline 100 mg/ml intramuscular use pigs. We investigated variation duration period between 68 products from 29 countries in- and outside European Union. More specifically, we tested whether there is a regional difference, difference major minor pig meat exporting...
Abstract In the present study, postural behaviour was compared between gilts kept in service unit with different types of flooring during all seasons. The study included four 28-day production cycles and 10 per cycle, equally divided into a control an experimental group. Control were housed gestation stalls slatted concrete floor, whereas group floor covered adjusted rubber mat. Postural observed 4 times cycle for hours. Study results showed that cooler seasons, spent more time standing...
Preweaning piglet mortality is a serious source of economic losses in pig production, with enteric diseases as the most common infectious cause mortality. The aim this study was to determine efficacy teat sanitation lactating sows order reduce bacterial invasion through contaminated teats leading outbreaks diseases. carried out farrowing pen 60 divided into three groups 20 animals. Group 1 animals served control group and were left untreated. In 2, sow treated water 3 commercial antiseptic...
AbstractAbstractThree quarters of Croatian pigs are produced in small production units (1-5 sows) and on family farms with mixed farming activities. Only few have specialized up-to-date technologies comply EU standards. The future competitiveness pig is therefore questionable unless systems changing. Modernisation will most probably result the expansion intensification larger termination a great number farms. aim this study was to investigate how welfare would be affected by modernisation....
Retained placenta (RP) is one of the most common complications occurring in post-partum period cows. Beside other reasons, many authors stress influence diet on incidence RP. However, role minerals and vitamins fed at this time subsequent fertility poorly understood. As nutritional causes RP are due primarily to last 6 8 weeks before calving, aim paper was investigate relationship between dry transition periods occurrence RP, as well introduction lactation fresh cows, with special emphasis...
Horse breeding in the Republic of Croatia, before its entrance into European Union, is transitional period. In sense, Croatian horse set according to model countries and trying counteract with ?modern countries?. Center for Breeding - Djakovo Lipik State Stud Farms (CCHB), Central register equidae is, as head national institution, responsible running maintaining central database (49 registers horses 27 types). Croatia has registered total 21.796 equidae, from which 19.306 animals are horses....