Cooperative Research Centre for Sheep Innovation, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia; NSW Department of Primary Industries, Centre for Red Meat and Sheep Development, Cowra, NSW 2794, Australia; Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (NSW Department of Primary Industries and Charles Sturt University), Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia.
Wollongbar Primary Industries Institute, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Wollongbar, NSW 2477, Australia.
Meat Sci. 2020 Jan;159:107937. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2019.107937. Epub 2019 Sep 2.
Despite the research to ensure Australian prime lamb carcases remain a premium meat, there are no objective carcase assessment tools which enable economic incentives to be translated to producers of high meat yielding lambs. Consequently, a probe developed in Iceland, the Icemeat probe, was investigated as a tool for measuring the tissue depth at the Greville (GR) site. To this end, 1087 lambs were measured at two abattoirs over a period of 4 months using the device and a GR knife on every lamb. Agreement was assessed by linear regression and by graphical analysis for systematic patterns of disagreement. Overall, these results highlighted increasing variability of the Icemeat probe measurements with increasing GR tissue depth. Therefore, further developments are required prior to industry adoption.
尽管有研究确保澳大利亚优质羊肉的胴体保持高档肉的地位，但目前还没有客观的胴体评估工具，可以将经济激励转化为高产肉羔羊的生产者。因此，研究人员调查了冰岛开发的一种工具，即 Icemeat 探针，以评估其在衡量 Greville（GR）部位组织深度方面的作用。为此，在 4 个月的时间里，有 1087 只羔羊在两个屠宰场使用该设备和 GR 刀进行了测量。通过线性回归和图形分析评估了一致性，以检查是否存在系统的不一致性。总体而言，这些结果表明，随着 GR 组织深度的增加，Icemeat 探针测量的可变性也在增加。因此，在行业采用之前，还需要进一步的开发。
