Session 09 - New developments in evaluation of carcass and meat quality in cattle and sheep

Theatre Presentations

• New methods for grading beef and sheep carcasses
  Allen, P. - Paul.Allen@teagasc.ie
• Traditional and new methods to assess meat quality
  Hocquette, J.F., G. Renand, E. Dufour, J. Lepetit and G.R. Nute - hocquet@clermont.inra.fr
• Plasma leptin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) as potentially phenotypic markers for carcass composition and growth rate in lambs
  von Borell, E., H. Sauerwein and M. Altmann - eberhard.vonborell@landw.uni-halle.de
• Relationship of carcass grades with carcass composition and value of steers
  Drennan, M.J., M.G. Keane and M. Nolan - mdrennan@grange.teagasc.ie
• Use of ultrasound technology in selecting meat quality in fat-tailed sheep
  Bedhiaf-Romdhani, S. and M. Djemali - romdhani.sonia@iresa.agrinet.tn
• Quality classification of the M. rectus abdominis of Charolais Heifers
  Oury, M.P. - mp.oury@enesad.fr

Posters

• Use of carcass weight, community scale for carcass classification and carcass ultrasound measurements to predict carcass composition of young beef bulls
  Delfa, R., G. Ripoll, M. Joy and P. Alberti - rdelfa@aragon.es
• Relationship of visual muscular and skeletal scores and scanned muscle measurements with carcass grades, composition and value of steers
  Drennan, M.J. and M. McGee - mdrennan@grange.teagasc.ie
• Dependence between the area of MLLT and the muscling score of selected body areas in live animals of certain cattle breeds
  Dvorakova, J, L. Stádník, A. Jezková, V. Kuprova and F. Louda - dvorinaj@seznam.cz
• The use of ultrasound measurements in estimation of Valuable cut content in fattened bulls
  Polák, P., J. Dano, M. Oravcová and E. Krupa - polak@scpv.sk
• Comparison of two methods for longissimus muscle area measurements
  Karolyi, D., A. Dzidic, K. Salajpal, M. Dikic and I. Juric - dkarolyi@agr.hr
• In vivo ultrasonic measurements and live weight for predicting carcass quality in Churra Tensina mountain breed lambs
  Delfa, R., M. Joy, A. Sanz, B. Panea and A. Teixeira - rdelfa@aragon.es
• Slaughter value evaluation of large weight Ile de France and Hungarian Merino lambs by CT and traditional slaughter cutting
  Toldi, Gy. - toldi@mail.atk.u-kaposvar.hu ; nemeth.timea@atk.hu
• Longissimus thoracis et lumborum muscle volume calculation using in vivo real time ultrasonography
  Silva, S., A.L.G. Lourenço, C.M. Guedes, V. Santos, J.M.T. Azevedo and A.A. Dias-da-Silva - analou@utad.pt
• The effect of ultrasound probe on accuracy of intramuscular fat content and marbling prediction in beef longissimus dorsi muscle
  Tomka, J., P. Polák, E.N. Blanco Roa, E. Krupa, J. Huba, M. Oravcová and D. Peskovicová - tomka@scpv.sk
• Ethanol specimen of beef muscles samples for NIRS is rapid but efficient as the freeze-dried
  Masoero, G., M. Iacurto and G. Sala - miriam.iacurto@isz.it