Method for detecting poor meat quality in live animals
CA 2099532 C · Owner: Schaefer, Allan L. · Inventors: Graham, Richard C.; Jones, Stephen D. Morgan; Tong, Alan Kwai-Wah
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The invention provides methods of detecting poor meat quality in live animals using, infrared thermography. In cattle animals whose thermographs are predominantly outside the test, temperature range, 28 - 32 ~ 2°C are rejected as having a high , probability of producing poor meat quality. In swine, the test temperature range is 24 - 26 ~ 2°C.
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- Filed July 2, 1993 and granted March 14, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 2, 2013.
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