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Transmittance of Foreign Organic Compounds from the Feed to the Flesh of Swine

University of Helsinki^,2

Abstract

An attempt was made to determine whether deterioration products of organic material occasionally found in feeds are transferred to swine flesh and whether such flesh has harmful effects when fed to rats. Four young pigs were fed for a period of three months a ration containing large amounts of spoiled meat scraps and some horse manure. Two control groups of three pigs each were fed either barley, green fodder and skim milk, or rations containing barley and whey. Taste and odor tests showed that the flesh of the meat-scrap group had taken on repulsive tasting and smelling substances. In preliminary chemical analyses it was found that, as compared with the control groups, the lard of the meat scrap group contained distinctly more volatile aldehydes, methylketones, secondary amines, trimethylamine and skatole and also more primary amines and phenol. In growth experiments with rats, however, no differences were found between the animals fed large amounts of the flesh of the several pig groups.

¹ We are indebted to Dr. V. Rislakki for the veterinary inspection of the animals.

² Department of Nutritional Chemistry, Helsinki, Finland.