The meat industry needs reliable meat quality information through out the production process in order to guarantee
high-quality meat products for consumers . Besides laboratory researches, food scientists often try to adapt their
tools to industrial conditions and easy handling devices useable on-line and in slaughterhouses already exist. This
paper overviews the recently developed approaches and latest research efforts related to assessing the quality of different
meat products by electromagnetic waves and examines the potential for their deployment . The main meat
quality traits that can be assessed using electromagnetic waves are sensory characteristics, chemical composition,
physicochemical properties, health-protecting properties, nutritional characteristics and safety. A wide range of
techniques, from low frequency, high frequency impedance measurement, microwaves, NMR, IR and UV light, to
X-ray interaction, involves a wide range of physical interactions between the electromagneticwave and the sample.
Some of these techniques are nowin a period of transition between experimental and applied utilization and several
sensors and instruments are reviewed.