Current Meat Science Research

Food Safety:

Air Cleaning System Effectiveness for Control of Airborne Microbes in a Meat Processing Plant. 2002. Journal of Food Science 67:1170-1174

Microbial Reduction Efficiencies of Filtration, Electrostatic Polarization and UV Components of a Germicidal Air Cleaning System. 2002. Journal of Food Science 67:2278-2281.

Relationship between aerosolized microbial load and contamination of fully cooked then frozen meat products. 2003. Journal of Food Science. IN PRESS.

Beef Research:

Protein Turnover And Sensory Traits Of Longissimus Muscle From Implanted And Non-Implanted Heifers. 2003. Journal of Animal Science. 81:1728-1735.

Warner-Bratzler Shear Value Repeatability in Beef Longissimus Steaks Cooked with a Convection Oven, Broiler, or Clam-shell Grill. 2003. Journal of Food Science. 68:668-670.

Effect of vitamin D3 supplementation level on the postmortem tenderization of beef from steers. 2002. Journal of Animal Science. 80:971-981.

Pork Research:

Degree of amino acid restrictions during the grower phase and compensatory growth in pigs selected for lean growth efficiency. 2002. Journal of Animal Science. 80:2610-2618.

Vitamin-mineral supplementation and accelerated chilling effects on quality of pork from pigs that are monomutant or noncarriers of the halothane gene. 2001. Journal of Animal Science. 79:2346-2355.

Improving pork quality by feeding supranutritional concentrations of vitamin D3. 2003. Journal of Animal Science. IN PRESS

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