APPLYING EXPRESS METHOD OF DETERMINING THE FRESHNESS OF MEAT BY THE BONE MARROW
Nowadays, the problem of the quality of products of animal origin occupies an important place in our country and all over the world. This is due to the increasing influence of technogenic factors on the environment, crops and productive animals. One of the main indicators of the quality of meat is its freshness. The existing traditional methods for determining the freshness of meat, in spite of the rather long practice of their application, are generally inefficient, subjective, do not have high sensitivity and specificity. One of the problems of reliable evaluation of meat sold in the markets is the detection of dystrophic and edematic changes in the muscle tissue of slaughter animals, in the presence of which meat must be culled. Such processes in meat can develop at various diseases and long starvation. Generally accepted laboratory methods practically do not reveal signs of swelling of the muscular tissue. The aim of the research was to study the possibility of using the express method of freshness control during veterinary and sanitary examination of meat sold in the markets. Approbation of the express method for determining the freshness of meat using bone marrow was carried out. It is shown that this express method allowed to increase the number of rejected samples with revealed signs of poor quality in 1,5...2 times in comparison with generally accepted organoleptic and physicochemical methods of research. It is shown that with the express analysis of muscle tissue it is possible to reliably determine the poor quality of meat, associated with pathological processes in the body or with the development of signs of spoilage. Such express methods have a certain perspective of using by laboratories of veterinaty and sanitary examination in markets and fairs, as well as in production laboratories of meat processing enterprises.