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Some important changes in the Australian sheep meat processing industry
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Some important changes in the Australian sheep meat processing industry

D.L. Hopkins, E.S. Toohey, K.L. Pearce and I. Richards
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, Vol.48(7), pp.752-756
2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/EA07393
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Abstract

In the last 5 years there has been a dramatic increase in the adoption in the Australian sheep meat processing industry of electrical technologies designed to streamline processing and improve product quality. Part of this change was initiated by an Australia-wide audit of lamb tenderness in 1997–98 and the development of a program to establish an eating quality scheme for sheep meat across Australia. Critically, these initiatives coincided with the development of new ways of administering electrical currents to either bodies or carcasses. Underlying this new approach is the electrocution of carcasses individually on segmented electrodes in a dose responsive way with electricity that has short pulse widths and lower voltages. This paper documents the pivotal factors which have contributed to this level of industry adoption and which has seen 14 abattoirs install the new technology. Of these abattoirs only one previously had any form of stimulation and these abattoirs represent more than 70% of the throughput of sheep and lambs on a tonnage basis per year in Australia.

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3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology
3.51 Dairy & Animal Sciences
3.51.206 Meat Quality
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Agricultural Sciences
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