AgResearch MIRINZ Meat Industry Workshop 2007

In October 2007, AgResearch MIRINZ held its third annual meat industry workshop at Ruakura.

Below are the presentations from the workshop (Adobe Reader required).

Day 1:

• NZSFA, MIA & MIRINZ: The need for a collaborative approach to research

• Post slaughter control of Escherichia coli in New Zealand bobby-veal

• Improved pathogen control technologies for New Zealand meat

• Biopreservation: Antimicrobial lactic-acid bacteria for improving fresh meat safety and storage

• Rapid detection of early spoilage odours

• Venison eating quality & food safety

• The power of genomic technologies, applications and opportunities

• Drip tenderness, electrical stimulation and meat quality

• Near infrared (NIR) measurements of meat quality - current status

• NIFT-D & FoodQSM: Non-invasive measurement to assist supply chain QA & management

• Accuracy of core sampling in cartons of beef: a simulation study

Day 2:

• Johne's disease and its impact on red meat production

• Examples of meat-industry related research activity & expertise at Massey University

• Functional packaging for the meat industry

• Waste 2 gold: turning environmental negatives into economic positives

• Technology to determine the quality of meat required by tomorrow's consumers

• Easitrace II: cheaper & easier ways of tracing meat using DNA

• Isotrace New Zealand Limited

• Automated ovine pelt removal tasks

• Improvements to hygenic dressing

• Meat industry automation - The way forward

• SAPI: Sheepmeat advanced process integration

• Concluding remarks