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CENTA - IRTA have the experts and the necessary equipment to classify different types of swine meat.

We offer the following services:

Calibration and validation of pig carcass classification devices

• On-line semi-automatic probes (Fat-O-Meater, Ultrafom, etc.).

• On-line fully-automatic methods (Autofom, VCS2000, etc.).

• Computerized tomography.

Pig carcass evaluation

• Evaluation of proteins and lipids of the carcass.

• Composition and proportion of the primal cuts and carcasses by means of cutting or computed tomography.

Evaluation of animal body tissues in vivo by computerized tomography

• Intramuscular fat, fat and muscle thickness areas, etc.

• Evaluation of fat and lean content and distribution.

Applications

• Evaluation of pig genetic breeding.

• In vivo determination of intramuscular fat.

• Validation of intramuscular fat on-line determination probes.

• Distribution patterns of different tissues in the body, depending on age, sex, genetics, diet, etc.

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