Quality and Safety of Meat Products

Download or read book Quality and Safety of Meat Products written by Begoña Panea and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food safety is a major problem around the world, both with regard to human suffering and with respect to economic costs. Scientific advances have increased our knowledge surrounding the nutritional characteristics of foods and their effects on health. This means that a large proportion of consumers are much more conscious with respect to what they eat and their demands for quality food. Food quality is a complex term that includes, in addition to safety, other intrinsic characteristics, such as appearance, color, texture and flavor, and also extrinsic characteristics, such as perception or involvement.