Modelos de trazabilidad molecular en zootecnia
- Antonio Muñoz Luna
- Manuel Guillermo Ramis Vidal
- Francisco José Pallarés Martínez
- Jesús Martínez Almela
- Jorge Manuel Barrera Marzá
- Miriam Lorenzo Navarro
Editorial: edUPV, Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València ; Universitat Politècnica de València
ISBN: 84-9705-987-5
Ano de publicación: 2006
Páxinas: 201-211
Congreso: CIDIP. Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería de Proyectos (10. 2006. Valencia)
Tipo: Achega congreso
Resumo
The traceability of animals as origin of meat has been classically done using physical devices such as eartags or microchips, allowing the identification of the carcasses in slaughterhouses and quartering rooms. These methods, supported by electronic records, allowed tracing the life of the animals. However, these devices show very important limitations. Today, and since the later 80’s, has been fully developed the molecular traceability, using as identification tool the DNA; an immutable element over the productive process. Under traceability point of view, these techniques are currently used for a) to identify animals (parental and breed identification) in order to assure the origin of the animals, specially in high quality minority productions such as Iberian pigs; b) to assess the absence of nondesirable genes which could affect to the technological and sensorial quality of meat; c) to develop selection programs based in genetic markers, improving the performance of such programs compared to classical quantitative genetic and d) as a health tool under two different points of view: animal health and food safety, diagnosing the presence of undesirable pathogenic microorganisms.