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Livestock slaughtered - Pigs

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Full name of indicator:	Livestock slaughtered - Pigs
Code:	6097
Topic:	Agriculture, forestry, fisheries
Validity:	01.01.2000 - 09.09.9999
Definition:	"Number of slaughtered pigs" is the number of carcasses of animals whose meat is deemed fit for human consumption. "Live weight" is the live weight of slaughtered pigs expresses the live weight of animals before their slaughter, expressed as the empty body weight. "Carcass weight" is the cold weight after slaughter and dressing of slaughtered pigs whose meat is deemed fit for human consumption. (The cold weight can be obtained by subtracting 2% from the weight recorded warm 45 minutes, at the latest, after the animal is bled – included in the definition during the period 2009-2024). "Carcass of pigs" means body of a slaughtered animal, bled and eviscerated, whole or divided down the mid-line, presented without tongue, bristles, hooves, sexual organs, flare fat, kidneys and diaphragm. "Pigs" means domestic animals of the species Sus scrofa domesticus Erxleben; meat of these animals is presented as pigmeat.
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