The carcasses were selected by qualified classifiers on the commercial market. They were electrically stimulated (500 V) within 10 min of stunning, dressed, halved, chilled overnight at between 0 °C and 5 °C, labelled and transported to the Animal Nutrition Animal
Products Institute of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC-ANPI) in a refrigerated truck at between 5 °C and 7 °C.