MLA targets red meat's holy grail: objective eating quality

Mark Phelps
Updated August 8 2017 - 5:27pm, first published 5:12pm
MOVING FORWARD: MLA managing director Richard Norton wants to put the red meat industry on the front foot. - Photo Kirra Bogan
MOVING FORWARD: MLA managing director Richard Norton wants to put the red meat industry on the front foot. - Photo Kirra Bogan

DEXA – the technology that objectively measures meat, bone and fat is locked in. Now Meat and Livestock Australia has announced it will invest almost $28 million in research into objective measurement that will unlock the holy grail of a value based payment system for red meat – eating quality.

Mark Phelps

Mark Phelps

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