Livestock is considered central component in agricultural sector of Pakistan, provides employment to more than 8 million families. Meat and meat products holds pivotal significance in meeting dietary requirements serving as major protein source and provide essential vitamins and minerals. Globally, consumer demand is increasing for healthy, hygienic and safe meat and meat products due to growin...

The aim of this study was to explore the concept of disgust in relation to meat and meat-eating. A sample of 30 high school students (aged 16 to 17 years), 10 urban females, 10 rural females, and 10 rural males, participated in the study. The participants' attitudes towards meat and meat-eating were investigated through interviews of a semi-structured nature and a short, confidential questionna...

The purpose of the present study was to examine whether differences in ambivalence between meat eaters affect their attitude towards eating meat, the belief structure underlying these attitudes, meat consumption, and intentions to reduce consumption in the future. Not surprisingly, more ambivalent meat eaters held a less positive attitude towards meat as compared to less ambivalent meat eaters....

A total of 90 random samples of ready to-eat-pastry foods of meat pie, meat pizza and pasta pashamil. 30 samples of each were collected from different fast foods services at Kalyobia governorate to be examined bacteriologically for detection of pathogenic Escherichia coli microorganisms. The obtained results indicate that incidence of E.coli isolated from examined samples of pastry foods were 2...

Interviews undertaken in a study of consumers' views on food quality were re-analysed with special reference to the narrative themes raised by consumers when describing their views on the quality of meat and meat products. Negative attitudes towards meat were frequently expressed, and with more emotion than comments about any other food. Being based on interviews made prior to the BSE crisis, t...

This paper overviews the biophysical methods developed to gain access to meat structure information. The meat industry needs reliable meat quality information throughout the production process in order to guarantee high-quality meat products for consumers. Fast and non-invasive sensors will shortly be deployed, based on the development of biophysical methods for assessing meat structure. Reliab...

Long-term consumption of red meat has been considered a potential risk to gut health, but this is based on clinic investigations, excessive intake of fat, heme and some injurious compounds formed during cooking or additions to processed meat products. Whether intake of red meat protein affects gut bacteria and the health of the host remains unclear. In this work, we compared the composition of ...

Detection of animal mixtures in meatballs by using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR spectroscopy) has been studied. This research aims to study the different markers fat characters containing mixture chicken fat, lard and rat fat. Sample preparation used Soxhlet extraction with n-hexane solvent distillation from solvent. The temperature is 70°C volume 200 mL. Fat samples were prepa...

listeria monocytogenes can be found throughout the environment and in many foods. it is associated primarily with meat and animal products. listeria monocytogenes has become increasingly important as a food-borne pathogen. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of microwave (mw) treatment of chicken meat samples which were inoculated with l. monocytogenes. drumettes of broiler carcass...

in this assay, edible cattle tissues from local markets of ardabil, a province of iran, were examined for residues of tetracycline antibiotics (tetracycline, oxytetracycline and chlortetracycline). in total, 110 samples of triceps, gluteal muscle, diaphragm, kidney and liver were randomly obtained from the local markets of the city of ardabil. solid-phase extraction (spe) and high-performance l...