By 21 d postmortem the respective values were
r ¼ þ0 :84 ð p ¼ 0 :017 Þ and the regression equation R2 ¼
71 :0% ð N ¼ 7 Þ. If the correlations ( r ¼ 0 :50; p ¼ 0 :0002)
were calculated for individual carcasses, the equation was
LD5SF ¼ )124.3 + 43.8 pH-7 C ( N ¼ 56, R2 ¼ 25 :0%).
The results based on slaughterhouse averages are more
important, because the cooling process cannot be controlled for individual carcasses.