Meat from beef T-bone cuts was packaged as follows: (1) Sub-primal cuts vacuumpackaged (VP) in shrink bags,
aged for 14 days, portioned, VP again and aged for a further 7 days (VPR), (2) individual T-bone steaks VP in
shrink bags aged for 21 days (VPP), and (3) individual T-bone steaks aged in vacuum-skin packaging (VSP) for
21 days. VSP recorded less purge and showed higher oxymyoglobin values after 2 days and higher chroma
after 3 days of aerobic display (P b 0.001) than VPR and VPP. Similar differences in colour stabilitywere recorded
for VPP compared to VPR.