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The incidence of watery muscle in commercial British pigs
Author(s) -
TAYLOR A. McM.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
international journal of food science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.831
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1365-2621
pISSN - 0950-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1966.tb01806.x
Subject(s) - zoology , distribution (mathematics) , veterinary medicine , incidence (geometry) , biology , mathematics , medicine , geometry , mathematical analysis
Measurements of the pH of the leg muscle approximately 45 min after slaughter (pH 1 ) have been made in 4737 commercial pigs slaughtered at eight factories in Great Britain. The values found lie on a single‐peaked distribution curve with a maximum at pH 6.4–6.5. No evidence was obtained of any marked influence on pH 1 distribution due to sex, weight or period of lairage. Indications of watery muscle were observed in about two per 1000 of the pigs examined. The distribution of watery muscle between factories was very irregular, most of the watery carcases being observed in a single factory.