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CarcassAI · Cutting standards

Standardsdisagree.Honestly.

UNECE, the US IMPS series, AHDB in the UK, Austria’s AMA, the EU poultry rules. Each draws its lines a little differently. Every code is mapped to one MeatBorsa product with how far it matches.

One product, fourteen codes

Pork belly× 14one ID

Each code is a narrower presentation of the same belly.

UNECE Rev.3International · 2018

  • 4079
  • 4080
  • 4081
  • 4082
  • 4329
  • 4330
  • 4331
  • 4332
  • 4333

USDA IMPS 400United States · 2014

  • 408
  • 408B
  • 409
  • 409A

AMAAustria

  • 2612

01 — Two standards, one cut

Two standards, one cut.

Pork tenderloin

Standard AUNECE 4280

close

Standard BUSDA 415

Both are the psoas tenderloin. The USDA item removes the psoas minor and has its own tail and fat trim.

Pork back ribs

Standard AUNECE 4161

exact

Standard BUSDA back ribs

Both need an intact section of at least eight loin ribs with the meat between them, vertebral bodies removed.

Pork shoulder

Standard AUNECE square cut

overlapping

Standard BUSDA 403

Both cover the shoulder, but with different rib boundaries and removal rules. Neither contains the other.

Beef tenderloin

Standard AUNECE tenderloin

close

Standard BUSDA 189

Both are the full psoas tenderloin, with different base trim and tail conventions.

Beef eye round

Standard AUNECE eye round

exact

Standard BUSDA eye of round

Both are the semitendinosus separated from the outside. The buyer’s trim options still decide.

Beef chuck

Standard AUNECE 1617

overlapping

Standard BUSDA 113

Both are the square-cut chuck and shoulder, but separation lines and what stays on differ.

02 — How far it matches

Never a false “same”.

How far it matches

  • Exact
  • Close
  • Overlapping
  • Broader / narrower

03 — Words it will not guess

Words it will not guess.

Some names only mean something once the animal is known. They wait for it.

  • Lagarto

    Pork lagarto with a pig, beef eye round with cattle.

  • Presa

    Needs the animal; “Presa ibérica” has it.

  • Tomahawk

    Beef, pork or lamb: stays open until one is named.

  • Cutting fat

    Pork or beef, never guessed.

  • Bonfile

    A Turkish name shared by animals.

  • Turkey

    A country as often as a bird: not read as the animal.

04 — Cutting standards

26 schemes in the ontology.

UNECE porcine, bovine, veal, ovine, caprine, chicken, turkey, duck, goose and edible co-products · USDA IMPS 100, 200, 300, 400 and 700 · USDA poultry trade descriptions · US poultry rules · AHDB beef · EU poultry regulation 2026/343 · MeatBorsa families

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