thereafter the SC-treated sides were railed into the conventional chilling room (air temperature, 1 ± 1 °C; air velocity, 0.5 m/s) for the remainder time of chilling (to 48 h postmortem). Each of the LL muscles was cut into 3 segments, vacuum packaged and continually stored in incubators at 3 ± 1 °C aging for 1, 7 and 14 d.