Beef Industry

Despite attention to hygiene and cleanliness, corrosion of base metals by meat juices and deterioration of meat and hsh owing to metal contamination is liable to occur. Stainless steel is recommended in soup and paste manufacture, and aluminium has a certain application. Mild steel is however used in the corned beef industry, for meat pre-cooking. 

Cattle Hormones such as oestradiol. Used in the beef industry to increase... 

A much more recent occurrence was in January 1984, in the state of Queensland, Australia, when an extortionist threatened to infect the livestock with foot-and-mouth disease if certain prison reforms were not undertaken. Authorities could not afford to take this threat lightly Queensland is home to 60% of the Australian beef industry. The Australian government sought urgent and highly secret consultations with the United States and some of its other allies. The threat was ultimately determined to be a hoax perpetrated by a local convict however, the economic implications of such an attack are obvious, and even the Australian authorities concluded that it would have been almost impossible to prevent.22... 

Lactic and acetic acids are used in the beef industry for the decontamination of carcasses. The effectiveness of these acids is dependent on the concentration and temperature of the acid solution, the exposure time and application pressure, the application stage in the slaughtering process, the tissue type, the type of microorganisms, and the level of initial concentration [37], Therefore, a higher lactic and/or acetic acid concentration might be expected in meats treated with these acids. 

According to Fearne (1988),animportant feature of the UK beef industry inthe90 shasbeenthe emergence of partnerships between producers, abattoirs cuid supermarkets. In recent years these partnerships have extended further up the supply chain to include breeders and feed suppliers. These partnerships have been difficult to estabhsh cuid slow to develop - they currently account for approximately one fifth of beef production - but the momentum behind them is gathering... 

Fearne, A., 1999. Building partnerships in the meat supply chain, the case of the UK beef industry. Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), the Hague, the Netherlands. 

Brown, G.G., Longworth, J.W. and Waldron, S. 2002. Food safety and development of the beef industry in Ghina. Food Policy, 27, 269-284. 

Waldron, S., Brown, C. and Longworth, J. 2010. A critique of high-value supply chains as a means of modernising agriculture in China the case of the beef industry. Food Policy, 35, 479-487. 

Nepstad, D.C., Stickler, C.M., Almeida, O.T., 2006. Globalization of the Amazon soy and beef industries opportunities for conservation. Conservation Biology 20,1595-1603. 

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