METHOD FOR DETERMINING OF MEAT QUALITY Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC G01N33/12 

FIELD: agriculture, in particular, method for determining quality of meat, more particular, beef meat.

SUBSTANCE: method involves providing control slaughtering of animals; taking meat samples from readily available large muscles: prespinal, musculus longissimus of the back, musculus iliopsoas and musculus semi-membranous; providing biochemical investigation of their composition; calculating on the basis of resultant data protein and fat content in carcass; determining energy value of meat, protein-fat and meat-bone ratio, maturity coefficient, nutritive value and quality of meat protein; comparing resultant data with standard parameters of meat of different categories; evaluating quality of carcass meat.

EFFECT: reduced labor intensity for boning of cutting, convenient sampling of flesh, and provision for obtaining of maximally reliable data on quality of meat characteristic of the whole carcass.

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