AgResearch Meat Industry Workshop 2011

In November 2011, AgResearch Ltd held its annual meat industry workshop at Grasslands, Palmerston North.

The workshop was led off with a topical keynote talk by Don Everitt GM Sales and Marketing for New Zealand King Salmon. King Salmon is a product sold internationally on quality and health benefits, a potential inspiration for the red-meat industry.

Don and the remainder of the day's speakers from AgResearch and Massey University provided some topical presentations, which generated some lively discussions. While we cannot provide you with the sparkle of the presenters or the valuable discussions (as they say: “You had to be there”), we can provide you with PDF versions of the presentations (Adobe Reader required):

Presentations

• Keynote address (Don Everitt, GM Sales & Marketing, NZ King Salmon Ltd)

• Global food safety demands and their impact on NZ meat exporters (Karen Morris, Alliance)

• Leptospirosis in New Zealand 2011: the new face of an old disease (Dr Julie Collins-Emerson, Massey University)

• Progress in control of bovine tuberculosis (Dr Bryce Buddle)

• Emerging infectious diseases - Escherichia coli O157:H7, non-O157s and O104:H4 (Dr Helen Withers)

• Quorum sensing - the path of least persistence (Barbie Govan)

• Survey of environmental microflora (Sadaf Naquash)

• From spore to spoiler: germination of meat spoilage related clostridia (Katharine Adam)

• Energy benchmark survey - preliminary summary of 12 months (Robert Kemp)

• The biochemical basis of toughness in beef (Dominic Lomiwes)

• Predicting drip and thaw loss early post mortem (Mustafa Farouk)

• Further elucidation of impact of aged/frozen treatment on meat quality (Brad Kim)