Adding value to food chain information: using data on pig welfare and antimicrobial use on-farm to predict meat inspection outcomes

Table.1 Animal-based welfare outcomes recorded during welfare assessment on a commercial farm (

Welfare criteria	Outcome	Description and scoring procedure
Comfort around lying area	Bursitis	Presence (1) or absence (0) of inflamed bursae on limb(s)
Absence of injuries	Lameness	Presence (1) or absence (0) of claudication
	Tail lesions	Score 0 (no evidence of tail biting) to 4 (total loss of the tail)
	Ear lesions	Score 0 (intact) to 4 (loss of one or both ears)
Absence of disease	Hernia	Umbilical or inguinal hernias: small, medium or large in size¹

¹ Subjective classification: small (approximately golf-ball size); medium (approximately baseball size); large (approximately melon size) by [19]

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