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The Use of Pork from Entire Male and Immunocastrated Pigs for Meat Products-An Overview with Recommendations.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- GnRH-Based Immunocastration Vaccines: Comparative Analysis and Role in Boar Taint Reduction.Vaccines · 2026Review
- Coated Bacterial Vaccine Platform Overcomes Weak Antigen Immunogenicity: A Functional Approach to GnRH-Based Immunocastration.Biotechnology journal · 2026Article
- INSL3 Expression in Leydig Cells is a Biomarker for Immunocastration in Boars: Transcriptional Evidence.Andrology · 2026Article
- Quality of Meat and Fat from Immunocastrated Boars and Uncastrated Boars Slaughtered at Different Body Weights.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Carcass Traits and Meat Quality of Surgically Castrated and Immunocastrated Pigs at Two Slaughter Weights.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Productive performance and carcass quality of pigs from different sire lines under commercial production conditions.Veterinary and animal science · 2025Article
- Preparation of two kinds of immunocastration vaccines and their immune effects on male goats.Animal bioscience · 2025Article
- Performance, carcass, and pork traits in barrows and gilts slaughtered over 130 kg: insights from a Brazilian perspective.Translational animal science · 2025Article
- Effect of castration method on porcine skeletal muscle fiber traits and transcriptome profiles.Veterinary and animal science · 2024Article
- Consumer animal welfare and healthy perception of fresh sausages' fiber fat replaced and elaborated with meat from non-castrated male pigs.Food science & nutrition · 2024Article
- A Preliminary Evaluation of Sex and Dietary Field Pea Effects on Sensory Characteristics of Dry-Cured Loins.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Influence of Sex and a High-Fiber Diet on the Gut Microbiome of Alentejano Pigs Raised to Heavy Weights.Veterinary sciences · 2023Article
- Influence of Sex on Meat and Fat Quality from Heavy Alentejano Pigs Finished Outdoors on Commercial and High Fiber Diets.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Genetic Correlations between Boar Taint Compound Concentrations in Fat of Purebred Boars and Production and Ham Quality Traits in Crossbred Heavy Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Outdoor Finishing of Intact Male Portuguese Alentejano Pigs on a Sustainable High-Fiber Diet: Impacts on Blood, Growth, Carcass, Meat Quality and Boar Taint Compounds.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Male Reproductive Organ Weight: Criteria for Detection of Androstenone-Positive Carcasses in Immunocastrated and Entire Male Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Spanish Fuet Sausages Fat-Reduced to Diminish Boar Taint: Sensory and Technological Quality.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- A Scenario Analysis for Implementing Immunocastration as a Single Solution for Piglet Castration.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Consumers' Expectations about Meat from Surgical Castrated or Immunocastrated Male and Female Iberian Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- How Housing Conditions Determine the Welfare of Pigs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
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Abstract
Due to the strong public initiative in Europe and increased regulator focus to mitigate pain, surgical castration of pigs is being gradually abandoned, while the importance of other sex categories like entire males (EM) and immunocastrates (IC) increases. Although beneficial for animal welfare and economics, their use also brings forward several quality problems. Besides the occurrence of boar taint in EM, these include excessive carcass leanness, softer fat, meat color and pH deviations, inferior water holding capacity and increased meat toughness. In this paper, the raw material differences between the male sex categories and their influence on product quality are reviewed, and possible solutions are presented. Using EM for dried or thermally processed products may result in lower processing yields and inferior sensory quality, which may partially be prevented by applying specific processing adaptations. Immunocastration is a viable solution, especially when prolonging the vaccination to slaughter interval. Low to medium levels of boar taint can be effectively managed in most of the meat products, applying procedures like cooking, microbial inoculation or masking (by spices and especially smoking), while highly tainted material can be valorized only by combining various methods and/or with dilution of the tainted meat.
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