Electrical impedance to easily discover undeclared freeze-thaw cycles in slaughtered bovine meat

A. H. Dell’Osa; G. Battacone; G. Pulina; A. Fois; F. Tocco; A. Loviselli; A. Concu; F. Velluzzi

doi:10.2478/joeb-2021-0002

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Electrical impedance to easily discover undeclared freeze-thaw cycles in slaughtered bovine meat

Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance

Volume 12 (2021): Issue 1 (January 2021)

By: A. H. Dell’Osa, G. Battacone, G. Pulina, A. Fois, F. Tocco, A. Loviselli, A. Concu and F. Velluzzi

Open Access

|Mar 2021

Abstract

A portable electrical impedance spectroscopy device was developed to monitor the bioimpedance resistive component of bovine meat by injecting a sinusoidal current of 1 mA at 65 kHz. Both right and left longissimus dorsi muscles were trimmed from 4 slaughtered cows. The left muscle portions were frozen to −18 °C for 7 days while the right ones were meantime maintained at 5 °C. Mean value of impedance per length (Ω/cm) of frozen and thawed left samples was 31% lower than that of right non-frozen one (P = 0.0001). It was concluded that the device is reliable for monitoring the maturation of beef meat in situ with the possibility of revealing undeclared freeze-thaw cycles.

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Published on: Mar 30, 2021

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Keywords:

Meat anisotropy,

slaughtered bovine meat,

freeze-thaw cycles,

meat electrical bioimpedance,

meat maturation process

Related subjects:

Engineering,

Bioengineering and biomedical engineering,

Biomedical electronics,

Life sciences,

Biophysics,

Medicine,

Biomedical engineering,

Physics,

Spectroscopy and metrology

© 2021 A. H. Dell’Osa, G. Battacone, G. Pulina, A. Fois, F. Tocco, A. Loviselli, A. Concu, F. Velluzzi, published by University of Oslo
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