Low stress pre-slaughter handling: Effect of lairage time on the meat quality of pork

Meat Science

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 87-92

  Dall Aaslyng, Margit ^a   Barton Gade, Patricia ^a  

^a DANISH MEAT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Drip loss; Internal reflectance; Lairage time; Low stress handling; PH; Pigs; Temperature

Indexed keywords

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0035545624     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0309-1740(00)00081-4     Document Type: Article

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