How poultry processing can impact breast meat quality

Knowing how processing impacts meat attributes in the plant will help poultry companies produce quality breast meat.

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While the industry has increased its efficiency significantly and is producing more meat than ever, these same improvements have caused some producers to have meat quality issues in their boneless breast meat.
While the industry has increased its efficiency significantly and is producing more meat than ever, these same improvements have caused some producers to have meat quality issues in their boneless breast meat.
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Throughout the years, the poultry industry has experienced changes in breeding and production that have resulted in birds that grow bigger in a shorter amount of time. To accommodate those changes, the industry relied on automation to increase the number of birds that can be processed at once.

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