Monitoring injection site lesions in Canadian yearling cattle and cull cows and bulls: Spring 1998.
Injection site lesions were found in 15% top butts, 22% blades, 6% eyes of rounds, 0.4% inside rounds, and 8% outside rounds from yearling cattle, estimated to cost $7.15/head processed ($15 million annually). In cull cows and bulls, lesions were found in 33% outside rounds, estimated to cost $3.56/head processed ($2.3 million annually).
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D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D005524:Food Technology; D005525:Food-Processing Industry / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D007273:Injections, Intramuscular / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000662:veterinary*; D008297:Male; D008460:Meat / Q000592:standards*; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary*