Meat consumption has been increasing constantly, not only because of more habitants but increment in per capita consumption is also noticeable. Meat is a good source of highly quality proteins, iron, other nutrients and bioactive substances. At the same time there are some concerns about adverse influence of meat on human’s health. The biggest concerns … [Read more…]
Food fraud of meat species is becoming a widespread problem. Statistics show that food fraud of meat is on the rise. This study focuses on the possible authenticity of horse meat and gadoid fish using the polymerase chain reaction. The presence of horse meat was determined in 7 samples of beef meat products (9.2%). Analysis … [Read more…]
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of steer breeds on carcass quality traits and selected indicators of nutritional quality (dry matter content, intramuscular fat content, protein content, ash content and meat colour parameters). A total of 27 steers were included in the experiment – 10 purebred Czech Fleckvieh (C) steers, 8 … [Read more…]
Staphylococcus aureus produces a variety of toxins, some of which may cause staphylococcal intoxication. The aim of this study was to isolate S. aureus bacteria from samples of raw meat from the retail market in the Czech Republic and to determine the prevalence of genes encoding the production of staphylococcal enterotoxins in them. On the … [Read more…]