METHOD FOR DETERMINING QUALITY PARAMETERS IN MEAT PRODUCTS, AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM

摘要

The invention relates to a method for determining quality parameters in meat products, and a corresponding system. The method comprises the following steps: providing at least one transmitter coil (2) and one receiver coil (4); generating a variable primary electro-magnetic field by means of the transmitter coil (2); subjecting the meat product (50) to the primary field, generating currents induced in the meat product (50); and detecting the total resulting electro-magnetic field using said receiving coil (4). The invention also comprises the steps of: producing the in-phase and/or quadrature components of the total electro-magnetic field; and producing an estimation of the quality parameters of said meat product (50) based on the in-phase and/or quadrature components of the total field, using previously established correlation models between (i) the in-phase and/or quadrature components and (ii) a parameter from the group including water-retention capacity, salt absorption in lean muscle tissue and/or intramuscular fat content.