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Improving muscle quality during processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

P R Sheard*
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, Div of Farm Animal Science, Langford, Bristol, BS40 5DU, United Kingdom
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Meat quality, including eating quality, can be modified by production factors such as breed and diet and by various processing factors considered here. Tenderness, the most important and variable aspect of meat quality, is more affected during processing and, in the UK, the major retailers normally specify the post-slaughter conditions that are applied.

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Copyright © The American Society of International Law 2016

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