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Three main factors affect the quality and composition of meat in farm animals. Production conditions determine the composition of the meat, while marketing and postmortem periods have a major bearing on the visual appearance and ultimate eating experience for the consumer. It is often difficult to compare research results from different countries since meat quality is assessed by a wide variety of procedures. Quality and Grading of Carcasses of Meat Animals reviews the development of commercial grading or classification schemes on a world-wide basis, and it provides a broad outline of the most common subjective and objective procedures for the assessment of meat quality.The book provides reviews on:o Ante- and post-mortem effects on meat qualityo Reducing fatness in meat animalso Prediction of carcass composition and meat qualityo World carcass and grading systemso Electronic identification of animalsJones, S. D. is the author of 'Quality and Grading of Carcasses of Meat Animals' with ISBN 9780849350238 and ISBN 0849350239.
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