For decades, research in muscle biology has been focused on enlarging skeletal muscle mass, which increases the quantity of meat production. It has been well established that myogenic cells are derived from multipotent mesenychmal stem cells (MSC). During the embryonic and fetal stages, muscle fibers are formed through the fusion of myogenic cells; enhancing the proliferation and myogenic diffe...

A dose-response experiment with five lysine levels (0.65, 0.80, 0.95, 1.10, and 1.25%) was conducted to evaluate the lysine requirement of male White Pekin ducklings from 7 to 21 days of age. Two hundred and eighty, 7-day-old, male White Pekin ducklings were allocated to 5 experimental treatments, each containing 8 replicate pens with 7 birds per pen. Feed and water were provided ad libitum fro...

New Zealand is a small Pacific nation 1600 km east 01 Australia and thus is far from the population centers of the Northern Hemisphere its major markets. New Zealand has an area of approximately 268,000 km2 (comparable to the area of the state of Colorado) and a population of just over three million. Its economy is based largely on the pastoral production of sheep and cattle: The meat industry ...

and Implications Market animals fed conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) could be leaner, have less fat and more muscle, and an increased rate of gain and improved feed efficiency. Improvement of these three production variablesÐimproved lean, rate of gain, and feed efficiencyÐwould offer significant economic advantages in swine production. Moreover, consumers would have available a leaner, more heal...

In vitro meat has recently emerged as a new concept in food biotechnology. Methods to produce in vitro meat generally involve the growth of muscle cells that are cultured on scaffolds using bioreactors. Suitable scaffold design and manufacture are critical to downstream culture and meat production. Most current scaffolds are based on mammalian-derived biomaterials, the use of which is counter t...

Objective To investigate antibiotic use in poultry farms in Thailand and estimate the total amount of antibiotics used annually in Thai production of chicken meat. Methods In a single province, we surveyed eight farms in which chickens were raised for meat and interviewed the farms' owners in 2016. The antibiotic use for each chicken was defined as the amount of antibiotic given to the chicke...

The prevalence of MRSA in the turkey meat production chain in Germany was estimated within the national monitoring for zoonotic agents in 2010. In total 22/112 (19.6%) dust samples from turkey farms, 235/359 (65.5%) swabs from turkey carcasses after slaughter and 147/460 (32.0%) turkey meat samples at retail were tested positive for MRSA. The specific distributions of spa types, SCCmec types an...

Pastırma is a dry-cured meat product, produced from whole beef or water buffalo muscles. This study was carried out to investigate the effect of production stages (raw meat, after curing, after 2nd drying and pastırma) on the total lipid, neutral lipid, phospholipid and fatty acid composition of phospholipid fraction of pastırma produced from beef M. Longissimus dorsi muscles. The pH and colour...

The production of meat from sheep and goats in Australia occurs almost entirely at pasture in zones known as the semi-arid pastoral zone, the wheat-sheep zone (where sheep and crops form an agricultural rotation system) and the high rainfall zone. Each zone has particular factors which affect the human health hazards associated with sheep and goat meat and the opportunities for prevention. The ...

Żochowska-Kujawska J., Lachowicz K., Sobczak M., Bienkiewicz G., Tokarczyk G., Kotowicz M., Machcińska E. (2016): Compositional characteristics and nutritional quality of European beaver (Castor fiber L.) meat and its utility for sausage production. Czech J. Food Sci., 34: 87–92. The composition of European beaver (Castor fiber L.) meat and its utility for sausage production were investigated. ...