Grade Meat Tender, Grade Meat True...

Federal scientists have developed a new meat-grading system that offers dramatically more reliable tenderness evaluations.

Hardin, B. 1999. Predicting tenderness in beefsteaks. Agricultural Research (November):10. Available at http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/nov99/beef1199.htm.

Lusk, J. . . . T. Schroeder, et al. 1999. Will consumers pay for guaranteed tender steak? (February). Available at the Research Institute on Livestock Pricing, Virginia Tech Web site at http://www.aaec.vt.edu/rilp/publications.html.

Purcell, W.D. 1999. White Paper on Status, Conflicts, Issues, Opportunities, and Needs in the U.S. Beef Industry. Virginia Tech Research Bulletin. May.

Mohammad Koohmaraie
U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
P.O. Box 166
Clay Center, NE 68933

Wayne D. Purcell
Virginia Tech Research Institute on Livestock Pricing
Agricultural and Applied Economics
324 Hutcheson
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0401

Ted C. Schroeder
Kansas State University
Department of Agricultural Economics
Waters Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506

Gary C. Smith
Colorado State University
Department of Animal Sciences
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1171

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 22, November 27, 1999, p. 340. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.