Meat is a complex structure of chemical compounds. These days,
consumers are very much concerned about the quality of meat. There
is a need to undertake chemical and biochemical analyses of meat and
meat products in order to determine the quality of meat in industries.
Traditional methods that are being used in meat industries are no
doubt accurate but are very slow, relatively expensive and cannot be
employed on-line in commercial situation. Some analytical methods
were proposed in the last decades to replace these traditional techniques
with some innovativemethods. Among othermethods, spectroscopic
techniques are good candidates because of their rapidity and
sensitivity. Fluorescence spectroscopy has been used in agriculture
and food sciences since decades. It provides information about the presence
of fluorescent molecules and their environment in analyzed sample.
Use of fluorescence spectroscopy in the field of food science has
been increased during the last few years with the propagated application
of advanced statistical tools and with the technical and optical developments
of spectrofluorometers. Meat contains many naturally
occurring fluorophores. Emission from these fluorescent compounds is
called auto-fluorescence or intrinsic fluorescence