The phrase "abattoir survey" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to the inspection or assessment of slaughterhouses or meat processing facilities.
Example: "The government conducted an abattoir survey to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations."
Alternatives: "slaughterhouse assessment" or "meat processing evaluation".
A pre-requisite for any future abattoir survey is validation of the diagnostic tests used in relation to both stage of incubation and genotype.
In 1997/1998, an abattoir survey was conducted to determine the likely exposure of the human population to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) infection in sheep submitted for slaughter in Great Britain.
As shown in an abattoir survey in Jinka, that also slaughters surplus bulls originating from Hamer, 56% of all Mycobacteria isolates were NTMs including M. fortuitum, M. gordonae and M. mucogenicum [12].
They are more in line with more recent estimates of between 5 and 10% reported from an abattoir survey in Western Province Cameroon in 2003 [22] and 7% in neighbouring Chad in 2000 [5] although these were different populations owned by different ethnic groups with different husbandry approaches.
Reporting artefacts should not be a problem for the abattoir survey due to its random nature.
AS is the abattoir survey, FS is the fallen stock survey.
However, age data are available for the fallen stock surveys, but not the abattoir surveys, making such a comparison impossible.
Furthermore, all sheep and goats tested under the Fallen Stock and Abattoir surveys from holdings in Cambridgeshire have been negative.
Following the introduction of wide scale scrapie surveillance throughout the European Union in 2002, a number of anomalous positive results were identified in abattoir surveys in several countries [ 1- 4].
In 1993, national abattoir surveys on Swedish sheep and cattle showed a low seroprevalence; 0.3% in sheep (n = 1001) and 1.3% in cattle (n = 784) [ 8].
Several abattoir surveys of neoplasms in cattle have shown that bovine peripheral nerve sheath tumors (PNSTs) are among the three most common neoplasms in cattle [ 1- 5].
