Meat and Livestock Australia work to develop more specific MSA sheepmeat grading

Lucy Kinbacher
Updated June 14 2017 - 4:09pm, first published 3:00pm
An Australian audit of retail lamb in 1997 found 20 per cent of loins were classed as unacceptably tough.
An Australian audit of retail lamb in 1997 found 20 per cent of loins were classed as unacceptably tough.

A MORE specific grading system within Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) sheepmeat standards is still years away as researchers try to find a simple way to test required measurements similar to the beef industry, MLA says.

Lucy Kinbacher

Lucy Kinbacher

Editor - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Raised on a cattle property at Biggenden, Lucy Kinbacher has spent 10 years working across metropolitan, regional and rural publications in both Queensland and NSW. Lucy has been the editor of the Queensland Country Life and North Queensland Register since 2021.

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