**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to thank Claudio Oliviero and Olli Peltoniemi from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Helsinki and Kati Kastinen from the ProAgria Meat Competence Center for contributing to the conception of this work. Further, the authors would like to thank the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for the financial support of this work and publication.

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Stefan Björkman1

University of Helsinki, Finland

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\* and Alexander Grahofer2

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2 Clinic for Swine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland

1 Department of Production Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,

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