scholarly journals Consumption of Meat and the Human Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Umer Ali ◽  
Asif Bilal ◽  
Urooj Fatima ◽  
Muhammad Imran Anjum ◽  
Iqra Akbar ◽  
...  

It has grown into a significant part of the country's economy as well as a primary supply of white meat and nutrition for the average family. People were interrogated by questionnaire. In this, we included all types and every age of people. Many questions were asked. Industry trends in the meat sector contribute to various meat varieties such as beef, mutton, poultry, and camel, among others. The majority of chicken production takes place on large-scale farms throughout Pakistan's provinces. Chicken is emerging meat industry but beef is still at top so far. Fishery is an important part of Pakistan's economy, as it is a significant source of revenue for coastal residents. Red meat is a nutrient-dense diet that contains significant levels of protein, vital amino acids, vitamins, and minerals, including vitamin A, iron, and zinc, all of which are commonly deficient in the world. However, several studies have connected red meat consumption to a variety of health risks, including heart disease, colon cancer, kidney illness, and digestive disorders. So it is requirement to eat only proper cooked meat to escape its harmful effects.

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jobin Thomas ◽  
Ana Balseiro ◽  
Christian Gortázar ◽  
María A. Risalde

AbstractAnimal tuberculosis (TB) is a multi-host disease caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC). Due to its impact on economy, sanitary standards of milk and meat industry, public health and conservation, TB control is an actively ongoing research subject. Several wildlife species are involved in the maintenance and transmission of TB, so that new approaches to wildlife TB diagnosis have gained relevance in recent years. Diagnosis is a paramount step for screening, epidemiological investigation, as well as for ensuring the success of control strategies such as vaccination trials. This is the first review that systematically addresses data available for the diagnosis of TB in wildlife following the Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The article also gives an overview of the factors related to host, environment, sampling, and diagnostic techniques which can affect test performance. After three screenings, 124 articles were considered for systematic review. Literature indicates that post-mortem examination and culture are useful methods for disease surveillance, but immunological diagnostic tests based on cellular and humoral immune response detection are gaining importance in wildlife TB diagnosis. Among them, serological tests are especially useful in wildlife because they are relatively inexpensive and easy to perform, facilitate large-scale surveillance and can be used both ante- and post-mortem. Currently available studies assessed test performance mostly in cervids, European badgers, wild suids and wild bovids. Research to improve diagnostic tests for wildlife TB diagnosis is still needed in order to reach accurate, rapid and cost-effective diagnostic techniques adequate to a broad range of target species and consistent over space and time to allow proper disease monitoring.


Metabolites ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Robert S. Barlow ◽  
Adam G. Fitzgerald ◽  
Joanne M. Hughes ◽  
Kate E. McMillan ◽  
Sean C. Moore ◽  
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The red meat supply chain is a complex network transferring product from producers to consumers in a safe and secure way. There can be times when fragmentation can arise within the supply chain, which could be exploited. This risk needs reduction so that meat products enter the market with the desired attributes. Rapid Evaporative Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) is a novel ambient mass spectrometry technique originally developed for rapid and accurate classification of biological tissue which is now being considered for use in a range of additional applications. It has subsequently shown promise for a range of food provenance, quality and safety applications with its ability to conduct ex vivo and in situ analysis. These are regarded as critical characteristics for technologies which can enable real-time decision making in meat processing plants and more broadly throughout the sector. This review presents an overview of the REIMS technology, and its application to the areas of provenance, quality and safety to the red meat industry, particularly in an Australian context.


2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Panagiotou

The recent wave of megamergers sweeping the US food industry has raised significant concerns regarding “conglomerate” market power. Beef processors have been merging with pork and/or poultry processors (and vice versa). Concurrently, consumers have changed their attitude toward diet and health. The poultry industry has been more responsive to the changes in consumers’ lifestyles than the red meat industry by providing products which address health concerns. As a consequence, consumers exhibit stronger preference for chicken and are more willing to substitute chicken for red meat. The objective of this study is to examine the sustainability of collusion between multiproduct meat processing firms, under different values of the own-price demand flexibility of chicken as well as cross-price elasticities of demand between the markets of chicken and red meat. The findings indicate that the less (more) responsive demand for chicken gets to changes in its own price (price of red meat), the easier it gets for firms to sustain collusion.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aeriel D Belk ◽  
Toni Duarte ◽  
Casey Quinn ◽  
David A. Coil ◽  
Keith E. Belk ◽  
...  

Abstract Background. The United States’ large-scale poultry meat industry is energy and water intensive, and opportunities may exist to improve sustainability during the broiler chilling process. After harvest, the internal temperature of the chicken is rapidly cooled to inhibit bacterial growth that would otherwise compromise the safety of the product. This step is accomplished most commonly by water immersion chilling in the United States, while air chilling methods dominate other global markets. A comprehensive understanding of the differences between these chilling methods is lacking. Therefore, we assessed the meat quality, shelf-life, microbial ecology, and technoeconomic impacts of chilling methods on chicken broilers in a university meat laboratory setting. Results. We discovered that air-chilling (AC) methods resulted in superior chicken odor and shelf-life, especially prior to 14 days of dark storage. Moreover, we demonstrated that AC resulted in a more diverse microbiome that we hypothesize may delay the dominance of the spoilage organism Pseudomonas. Finally, a technoeconomic analysis highlighted potential economic advantages to AC when compared to water-chilling (WC) in facility locations where water costs are a more significant factor than energy costs. Conclusions. In this pilot study, AC chilling methods resulted in a superior product compared to WC methods and may have economic advantages in regions of the U.S. where water is expensive. As a next step, a similar experiment should be done in an industrial setting to confirm these results generated in a small-scale university lab facility.


2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt ◽  
René Wodrich ◽  
Cornelia Hesse

Abstract A hypothesis stating that more complex descriptions of processes in models simulate reality better (less error) but with more unreliable predictability (more sensitivity) is tested using a river water quality model. This hypothesis was extended stating that applying the model on a domain of smaller scale requires greater complexity to capture the same accuracy as in large-scale model applications which, however, leads to increased model sensitivity. The sediment and pollutant transport model TOXI, a module in the WASP5 package, was applied to two case studies of different scale: a 90-km course of the 5th order (sensu Strahler 1952) lower Saale river, Germany (large scale), and the lock-and-weir system at Calbe (small scale) situated on the same river course. A sensitivity analysis of several parameters relating to the physical and chemical transport processes of suspended solids, chloride, arsenic, iron and zinc shows that the coefficient, which partitions the total heavy metal mass into its dissolved and sorbed fraction, is a very sensitive parameter. Hence, the complexity of the sorptive process was varied to test the hypotheses.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
S. A. Voinova

Traditional automatic control systems do not solve the task of limiting the harmful effects of technical objects on the environment. The problem is to increase the effectiveness of means of its protection against the harmful effects of industry. Relevant is the use of indicators of environmental performance of technical objects as controlled parameters. A new approach to the control of technical objects is proposed. As the main control parameter it proposed to adopt the level of their ecological efficiency. Complicating circumstances of solving the problem is the insufficient knowledge of the factors of harmful effects on objects of living nature, their intensity, interrelation, mechanism, strength, and dynamics of exposure. Improving the economic efficiency of technical objects leads to an increase in their ecological efficiency. The solution to the problem is facilitated by the fact that traditional ACS should be left in action, adding to them an ecological efficiency control component. Heat-powerengineering has a large impact on the environment through emissions and discharges of harmful substances and heat. To give to ASC the functions of controlling the ecological efficiency of the boiler (for SOy emission), it is necessary to apply an additional, new control loop - regulator of SOy concentration in furnace gases. An urgent task in the use of direct control of the ecological efficiency of boiler-furnace systems is the development and production of physical quantity sensors, reflecting the level of aggressiveness of the source of hazard, working in real time. Direct control of indicators of ecological efficiency is much easier in other branches of industry, in particular, in its food branch, where objects do not have a large-scale complex negative impact on the environment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 122 (9) ◽  
pp. 2927-2937
Author(s):  
Nobuhle Sharon Lungu ◽  
Anthony Jide Afolayan ◽  
Ronald Sylvester Thomas ◽  
Emrobowansan Monday Idamokoro

PurposeThe objective of the study was to assess consumer exposure to warmed-over flavour, their eating habits with respect to pre-cooked stored meats, awareness of antioxidants and attitudes towards the use of natural antioxidants as preservatives in meat and meat products.Design/methodology/approachA total of 238 Check-All-That-Apply (CATA) design questionnaires were used to gather information from the University of Fort Hare community in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.FindingsThe majority of the respondents had been exposed to warmed-over flavour before. More than half of the respondents did not know about antioxidants. Respondents were in support of the use of natural antioxidants in meat and meat products.Research limitations/implicationsThe study mainly captured consumer habits based on living arrangements. Age influence could not be extrapolated due to the nature of the population, which was being studied. The population was limited to the University community, which is mainly made up of not so widely spread age groups and more or less similar levels of education. As a result, the findings and conclusions may not be a true reflection of the general public consumers in terms of age, level of education and employment status.Originality/valueThis research presents an original insight into consumer habits concerning the purchasing and storage of pre-cooked meat and meat products. The study revealed that most consumers nowadays prefer ready-to-eat or pre-cooked meat and meat products due to convenience. The warmed-over flavour is common in pre-cooked meats. The findings suggests that the meat industry has to improve the shelf-life of pre-cooked foods such that warmed-over flavour development is delayed to fit into the current consumer habits. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of natural antioxidants to improve shelf-life of muscle foods. However, there is a dearth of information on consumer attitudes towards the use of natural antioxidants as preservatives. This study reveals that consumers are willing to try products formulated using natural antioxidants.


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