Background:
At present Indian meat industry is struggling due to insufficient cold storage facilities. To sustain meat and meat products quality maintenance of lower temperature throughout supply chain is must, along with that any fluctuation in temperature and related quality deterioration is necessary to be monitored. For that an efficient quality monitoring system is necessary. Therefore, environment friendly and safe plant based quality indicator for monitoring quality of meat and meat products during supply chain is the basic need of the meat processing industries at present:
Technology Details:
Plant based, environment friendly, economically viable quality indicator is a simple device. It can be used as sensitive meat quality detection tool to identify spoilage compounds of meat (which are generated during temperature abuse storage conditions throughout the supply chain) by a non-invasive colorimetric method. Quality indicators when set inside the meat packages a visible color change can be observed when there is volatile spoilage compounds generated due to storage or temperature abuse conditions.