For Immediate Release Producers, Processors Work Together to Ensure Pork Quality Pork producers, processors and other industry specialists recently met in Kansas City, MO, to discuss ways to ensure consumers can purchase high-quality pork products. Pork Quality Solutions Team during the checkoff sponsored 2000 Unified Research Meeting, held by NPPC and the National Pork Board. The committee met to review research proposals studying pork color stability, texture, water holding capacity and pH. They also requested projects looking at biochemical factors and harvest factors affecting pork quality. He said it is essential for all parts of the production chain to work together and achieve this goal.
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Quality attributes are started on-farm. But we must have parameters for quality from the producer on up through the packer industry. In addition to awarding funding to researchers, the committee also discussed the formation of a new program to promote research in this area. The Pork Quality Research Initiative will be designed to gather funding from packers and genetics companies for further research to be able to measure pork quality on-line in packing plants. The Pork Quality Solutions Team was part of four other producer committees reviewing proposals in the areas of swine health, pork safety, human nutrition and environmental issues during the Unified Research Meeting.