Bias and future trends of pig carcass classification methods

Food Chemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 457-460

  Gispert, M ^a   Gou, P ^a   Diestre, A ^a  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bias; Carcass; Classification; Pig

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARCASS; CLASSIFICATION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; SWINE;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034069351     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-8146(00)00058-3     Document Type: Article

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