Document type : Video recordings (no subtitles) of the Ifip programme of talks at SPACE 2021
Content: Tuesday 14 September: Breeding and Rearing
- Presentation of the 3 main options for rearing male pigs (castration under anaesthesia, immunocastration and production of uncastrated male pigs), advantages/disadvantages, and who does what at European level?
Valérie Courboulay, Animal Welfare Engineer, IFIP : link (14 minutes 30)
- Presentation of Sim'Alter, a free online simulator offered by IFIP to explore the financial impacts of different scenarios for stopping castration
Alexia Aubry, Livestock Performance Engineer, IFIP : link (13 minutes 30)
- Farmer interviews on the experience of using or having tried out one of these alternatives: Immunocastration (link - 9 minutes)
(the 2 videos from livestock farmers on their experiences of using castration under anaesthesia and the production of whole males cannot yet be broadcast, being subject to a later broadcast agreement).
Wednesday 15 September: Slaughter and Cutting
- Update on available techniques to detect boar taint in carcasses (using your nose, mass spectrometry, etc.),
Patrick Chevillon, IFIP Meat and Charcuterie Engineer: link (19 minutes 30)
- Presentation of the Sanmalo project, setting up a system to manage the detection of odours from whole male pig carcasses on the slaughter line
Pascal Le Duot, Director of UNIPORC : link (22 minutes 30)
- Overview of IFIP studies on the value of meat from whole male pigs, by Patrick Chevillon, IFIP : link (8 minutes 45)
Thursday 16 September: Processing
- Fat and lean content of cuts from uncastrated male pig carcasses, by Gérard Daumas, IFIP Meat and Charcuterie Engineer: link (13 minutes)
- Technological quality assessment of meat from non-castrated male pigs, by Antoine Vautier, IFIP Meat and Charcuterie Engineer: link (7 minutes 20)
- What the end to castration will mean for the needs of the processing sector, by Gilles Nassy, Director of the IFIP Meat and Charcuterie Division: link (8 minutes)
Friday 17 September: Matching pork products to markets
- Overview of the production of whole male pig meat in EU countries (Spain, Netherlands, Germany...),
Jan Peter Van Ferneij, economist at IFIP : link (26 minutes 30)
Videos discussed in an article on 18 October 2021 in the Bulletin de veille du Centre d'études et de prospective du Ministère de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation :Filière porcine : Conséquences des nouvelles réglementations pour la castration
