Commercial preslaughter blue light ambience for controlling broiler stress and meat qualities

The objective of this work was to study the effect of blue light diffuser on the broiler stress control by measuring the occurrence of PSE meat just before slaughtering. Birds were divided into the following two groups before slaughter at the point of being hung on shackles: broiler group under low...

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Main Authors: Claudia Freitas Barbosa, Rafael Humberto de Carvalho, Alessandro Rossa, Adriana Lourenço Soares, Fábio Augusto Garcia Coró, Massami Shimokomaki, Elza Iouko Ida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2013-10-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132013000500013&lng=en&tlng=en