with changes in living standards and food consumption pattern, consumers demand quality meat with more emphasis on tenderness which is often not obtained from the aged and spent animals. As a consequence, majority of the meat is losing its popularity and demand. Some quantity of meat produced is used for the development of various comminuted meat products. A practical method for improving tende...

Meat quality is becoming more important as consumers worldwide are increasingly demanding consistently higher quality meat. This article looks at the improvement of meat quality and also focuses on applied animal husbandry practices that can influence meat quality. Breeding technology for meat quality is still in its infancy, and will only accelerate with new developments in genetic markers, ge...

Adequate cooking of meat is necessary to inactivate microbial pathogens. This is particularly important for ground meat products and some variety meats where pathogens can be present internally. Consumers are being advised on appropriate temperatures to which meat products should be cooked, and to use a meat thermometer to ensure these temperatures are reached. However, consumers are more likel...

prices of meat in the international and a nation's internal markets tend to be closely related to each other. this relation could be sometimes harmful and due to lagged responses, meat prices at the internal market would subsequently increase as input prices increase at either the internal or international market. price uncertainty and transmition are two important problems facing a nation...

The aim of the present study was to examine the association of red meat, white meat and processed meat consumption in Irish adults with dietary quality. A cross-sectional study of subjects, randomly selected using the electoral register, estimated habitual food intakes using a 7 d food diary in a nationally representative sample of 662 men and 717 women (not pregnant or lactating) aged 18-64 ye...

Food allergies and intolerances have increased during the last decades and regulatory authorities have taken different measures to prevent and manage consumers' adverse reactions, including correct labelling of foods. Aim of this work was to search for soybean and lactose in meat products and meat preparations taken from retail in some provinces of Campania Region (Southern Italy) and to evalua...

Consumers are very concerned in "Protected Designation of Origin" (PDO) products, namely meat, since they associate these products to quality and healthy foods. Thus, it is necessary to implement analytical methodologies that could assure consumers about the products they purchase. Since this kind of meat is usually sold with no information concerning cattle sex, age and slaughter season, these...

In the last years, Iberian pork consumption has been limited as a result of relations established between fat consumption and cardiovascular diseases. However, recent researches have allowed establishing healthy properties to the intake of these kind of meat, and as a consequence its sale has increased, competing successfully with other meats. The objective of this study was to determine the at...