Description
The Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences, Second Edition, Three Volume Set prepared by an international team of experts, is a reference work that covers all important aspects of meat science from stable to table. Its topics range from muscle physiology, biochemistry (including post mortem biochemistry), and processing procedures to the processes of tenderization and flavor development, various processed meat products, animal production, microbiology and food safety, and carcass composition. It also considers animal welfare, animal genetics, genomics, consumer issues, ethnic meat products, nutrition, the history of each species, cooking procedures, human health and nutrition, and waste management.
Fully up-to-date, this important reference work provides an invaluable source of information for both researchers and professional food scientists. It appeals to all those wanting a one-stop guide to the meat sciences.
- More than 200 articles covering all areas of meat sciences
- Substantially revised and updated since the previous edition was published in 2004
- Full color throughout
Table of Contents
Additives
Animal Breeding and Genetics
Animal health risk analysis
Automation in the meat industry
Bacon production
Biofilm formation
Biomethane Production and Cleanup
Biopreservation
Biotechnology in meat animal production
Boar Taint: Biological Causes and Practical Means to Alleviate It
By-products
Canning
Carcass chilling and boning
Carcass Composition, Muscle Structure, and Contraction
Chemical analysis
Chemical analysis for specific components
Chemical and physical characteristics of meat
Chemistry and physics of comminuted products
Classification of carcasses
Connective Tissue: Structure, Function, and Influence on Meat Quality
Conversion of muscle to meat
Cooking of meat
Curing
Cutting and boning
Double-muscled animals
Drying
Economics
Electrical stimulation
Environmental Contaminants
Environmental impact of meat production
Equipment cleaning
Ethnic meat products
Exsanguination
Extrusion technology
Fermentation
Fish inspection
Foodborne zoonoses
Foreign bodies
Functional foods
Genome projects
Growth of meat animals
Ham production
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point and Self-Regulation
Human nutrition
Irradiation
Laboratory accreditation
Manure/Waste Management
Measurement of meat quality
Meat, Animal, Poultry and Fish Production and Management
Meat-Borne Hazards, Concepts and Methods for Mitigating Risks Related to
Meat marketing
Meat pricing systems
Meat research institutions
Meat species determination
Mechanically recovered meat
Microbial contamination
Microbiological analysis
Microbiological safety of meat
Microorganisms and resistance to antibiotics, the ubiquity of
Minced meats
Modelling in meat science
Muscle Fiber Types and Meat Quality
Nutrient claims on packaging
Nutrition of meat animals
On-line measurement of meat composition
On-line measurement of meat quality
Packaging
Parasites Present in Meat and Viscera of Land Farmed Animals
Patenting products, processes and apparatuses
Physical measurements
Potential chemical hazards associated with meat
Prediction of Meat Attributes from Intact Muscle using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Preservation methods of Animal Products
Preslaughter handling
Processing equipment
Professional organizations
Proteomic Technologies and Their Applications in the Meat Industry
Quality management
Refrigeration and freezing technology
Religious slaughter
Residues in meat and meat products
Risk analysis and Quantitative Risk Management
Sausage casings
Sausages, types of
Sensory and meat quality, Optimisation of
Sensory Assessment of Meat
Slaughter, Ethics, and the Law
Slaughter-line operation
Smoking
Species of meat animals
Spoilage, factors affecting
Stunning
Stunning and Killing of Farmed Fish: How to put it into Practice?
Sustainable Muscle Foods Industry
Tenderising mechanisms
Tenderising mechanisms
Tenderness Measurement
Thermophysical properties
