Conventional inspection methods that are still heavily depended
on in current meat industry are mainly based on human
sensory tests or instrumental physic-chemical tests. The former
is operator-dependent and the latter is often destructive and time
consuming. Rapid and nondestructive testing methods have been
explored for decades to predict the quality and safety of meat.
But conventional instrumental tests and many of the newly
evolved prediction methods are still based either on a sample as
a whole