John M. Marsh (406) 994-5621 [email protected] Cost efficiencies are an important factor in the red meat industry. These efficiencies refer to technological changes, resource configurations, and management strategies that result in firms reducing per unit costs of output (including risk). Cost efficiencies in livestock and meat marketing are critical for the economic survival of firms that com...

This paper highlights the evolution of nanoscience and nanotechnologies from the global perspective and their potential application in food systems including meat processing. Nanotechnology has its roots in a talk delivered in 1959 by physicist Richard Feynman to the American Physical Society. Nanoscience refers to components properties at nanoscale and nanotechnology refers to process or proce...

Cindy Tian et al. report that meat and milk from cloned bulls and cows, respectively, appear to meet regulatory standards. The researchers cloned a Japanese Black beef bull and Holstein dairy cow, using somatic cell nuclear transfer, and compared the meat and milk from two beef clones and four dairy clones to that of geneticand breed-matched control animals bred through conventional reproductio...

Bio -material cutting, such as meat deboning, is one of the most common operations in the food processing industry. It is also the largest employer of people in the United States. These tasks are currently manual processes with only limited use of fixed automation. The main difficulty in this task is the natural variability of the product's size and individual anatomy. The industry is looking t...

Introduction Overall quality of meat is determined by a combination of many factors including intramuscular fat, marbling, water absorption and pH. These factors also influence the quality of meat such as tenderness, juiciness and flavor at the time of eating (palatability) (AMSA, 2001). Marbling, which is defined as the intramuscular fat intermingled with lean within a muscle, has great influe...