Avaliação do processo por embalagem do tipo atmosfera modificada na conservação da carne bovina porcionada / The use of modified atmosphere packaging in order to improve the shelf life of case ready beef

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2006

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Modified atmosphere packaging and case ready beef have been used to improve quality of beef cuts. With this objective in mind this work was designed to study the shelf life of this kind of packaging on beef cuts and 24 samples from 4 Nellore steers, were collected from each muscle: Longissimus dorsi (LD), Quadriceps femoris (QF), Semitendinosus (ST) and Supraspinatus (SS) in a total of 96 samples which were packaged in masterpack bags with a MAPAX gas with 75% O2 and 25% CO2 and aged for 1, 14 or 28 days or treatment T1 samples analyzed on day 1, T14 samples analyzed on day 14 and T28 samples analyzed on day 28, respectively. Every treatment had 8 samples from every one of the 4 muscles studied (A, B, C, e D). Four samples were used for shear force, cooking losses, pH and color and, the other 4 samples for microbiological analyses. A linear decrease in shear force with aging time was observed for LD, ST and QF muscles. A quadratic association for the SS muscle was seen after 14 days of aging. For cooking losses there was a significant interaction between aging time and muscle, as exudative loss showed a linear relation with aging time, improving loss, when comparing T1 in relation to T2 and T3. Differences were observed for pH showing a linear and quadratic relation with aging time. Muscle color among treatments and results were within acceptable values for both characteristics and results. No Salmonellae, Clostridium or Fecal Coli forms were observed in any of the samples as well as total Coli forms were within acceptable ranges for raw beef.

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meat modified atmosphere embalagem carne packaging atmosfera modificada

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