Identification of beef under the agricultural market

In connection with Ukraine's accession to the WTO, the Government has been tasked to take steps to ensure a consistent transition to the new International Requirements for the Safety and Quality of Raw Materials and Foodstuffs, including on animal health control. The purpose of the research was to carry out veterinary-sanitary examination of beef in the conditions of the agro-industrial market, to improve and develop express methods of determination of beef qualities of NOR- and PSE. The following research methods were used: organoleptic, biochemical, physicochemical, microscopic, microbiological, morphological and biometric. It is theoretically substantiated and experimentally confirmed the necessity to carry out veterinary and sanitary evaluation of beef qualities of NOR, PSE and DFD obtained from black-billed bull calves aged 24-27 months after maturation. The optimal quality indicators of beef quality NOR, PSE and DFD were determined. In order to prevent the loss of meat raw materials during processing, as well as in the production of meat products, it is experimentally and theoretically substantiated the need to determine the beef qualities of NOR- and PSE by organoleptic, morphological parameters, as well as by pH and pigment content. Use patented photometric methods for express and effective determination of NOR- and PSE beef in the state veterinary laboratory on the market. It is scientifically substantiated and experimentally proved the expediency of carrying out veterinary and sanitary evaluation of beef of different enterprises of Kyiv region in accordance with the current national standards and normative legal acts of Ukraine. Thus, a reliable quantitative method for determining the total content of pigments in beef qualities of NOR- and PSE along with other methods of determining these qualities (moisture retention capacity, pH, moisture content, organoleptic) is proposed. The method has the advantage over the existing methods of determining beef NOR- and PSE in that the results have a specific, reliable quantitative value. Methodical recommendations “Veterinary-sanitary evaluation of beef using quantitative method for determination of total pigment content in NOR- and PSE-meat of cattle” approved by the Academic Council of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Bilotserkiv National Agrarian University, December 5, 2018 .