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Meat Scientists at The University of Nebraska - Lincoln have taken the 3 fold mission of a land grant university seriously to improve the Meat Products you consume.

Faculty and staff are actively working in Extension, Teaching and Research in the following ways:

Extension

  • Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Workshops
  • Pork 101
  • Beef 706
  • Food Safety
  • Youth Education
    • 4H
    • FFA
  • Retail Beef Decision Tool

Teaching

  • Bovine Myology
  • Porcine Myology
  • Meat Culinology Certificate Program (on-line)
  • Undergrate Courses in the Meat Science Option of an Animal Science Degree
  • Graduate Courses in Meat Science and Growth and Development of Meat Animals

Research

  • Muscle Profiling
  • Meat Quality
  • Meat Flavor
  • Food Safety Interventions
  • Meat Characteristics of Beef and Pork fed Distillers Grains
  • Beef Value Cuts
  • Instrument Grading Technology

Recalls and Alerts

Current Meat Product Recalls and Alerts from the USDA

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