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According to the EU legislation, all parts of a slaughter animal must be subjected to official inspection, with the penis as an exception if already discarded. The question is what the risk associated with not detecting abnormal testicles is for people working with pigs and consumers eating pig meat. To address this, we undertook a semi-quantitative risk assessment following WOAH guidelines, assuming two different transmission pathways (contact\/meat-borne) and two different pig populations (indoor\/outdoor) using Denmark as a case.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:italic>Brucella<\/jats:italic>\n                      spp. was identified as the only relevant public health hazard. Brucellosis is a notifiable zoonotic infection, among others resulting in enlarged testicles in infected boars. Denmark is officially free from\n                      <jats:italic>B. abortus<\/jats:italic>\n                      and\n                      <jats:italic>B. melitensis<\/jats:italic>\n                      , whereas\n                      <jats:italic>B. suis<\/jats:italic>\n                      biovar 2 has been detected on a few occasions during the last 50 years. No human cases have ever been detected in Denmark, and only few cases are found elsewhere. Pig meat is not ascribed to transmission of infection unless the meat comes from acutely infected animals.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The human health risk related to\n                      <jats:italic>B. suis<\/jats:italic>\n                      biovar 2 was assessed as low in case of contact with outdoor-reared pigs and negligible for the meat-borne route and contact to indoor raised pigs. 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