Clay Eastwood and Lindsey Mehall

Lindsey Mehall and Clay Eastwood, Ph.D. students in the Department of Animal Science, presented their research work at the 61st International Congress of Meat Science and Technology (ICoMST) in Clermont-Ferrand, France, August 23-28, 2015. The ICoMST had over 400 participants from over 40 countries in attendance. Faculty members, Wes Osburn and Jeff Savell, also participated in the conference.

Clay Eastwood discussing research findings with Eric England, The Ohio State University

Clay Eastwood presenting results in poster session

Clay Eastwood during poster session

Clay Eastwood explaining research results

Lindsey Mehall discussing findings during poster session

Lindsey Mehall fielding questions regarding her poster

Lindsey Mehall answering research questions

Here are the two papers presented:

Eastwood, L. C., A. N. Arnold, R. K. Miller, K. B. Gehring, and J. W. Savell. 2015. Quality and palatability of foodservice beef aged as vacuum-packaged subprimals or vacuum-packaged beef.  In: Proc. 61st Int. Congr. Meat Sci. Technol., Clermont-Ferrand, France. Paper 6.50.

Mehall, L. N., L. M. Lucia, J. W. Savell, K. B. Gehring, and G. R. Acuff. 2015. Escherichia coli biotype I surrogates as predictors of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli for growth, acid resistence, freezing, refrigerated storage.  In: Proc. 61st Int. Congr. Meat Sci. Technol., Clermont-Ferrand, France. Paper 8.30.

Thomas Powell, American Meat Science Association, and Wes Osburn, Department of Animal Science