CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences: Meat Industry Services
Publications Library
Live Animal
Publications relating to Farm and feedlot
Meat Technology Update Newsletters 
- Spread of foodborne pathogens during feeding, transportation and holding prior to slaughter. MTU 3/06 – June 2006
- E. coli, E. coli O157 and Salmonella. MTU 6/03 – December 2003
- Marbling and quality of beef. MTU 3/05 – June 2005
- Production factors affecting beef eating quality. MTU 4/00 – August 2000
- Sheep meat eating quality. MTU 3/00 – June 2000
- Pre-slaughter aspects of beef eating quality. MTU 6/99 – October 1999
- A critical control point approach to beef eating quality. MTU 1/99 – February 1999
- Beef fat quality. MTU 7/99 – December 1999
Publications relating to Handling
Meat Technology Update Newsletters
- Cattle handling design principles. MTU 5/99 – September 1999
- Pre-slaughter aspects of beef eating quality. MTU 6/99 – October 1999
- A critical control point approach to beef eating quality. MTU 1/99 – February 1999
- High-pH/dark beef. MTU 1/98 – February 1998
CSIRO publishing have free downloads of the Model Codes of Practice for animal welfare. For a full list of titles, see:
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/20/bcid/105.htm
Publications relating to Stunning and slaughter
Meat Technology Update Newsletters
- Stunning of cattle. MTU 2/99 – March 1999
- Electrical stunning of smallstock. MTU 5/98 – December 1998
- Smallstock slaughter and oesophageal occlusion. MTU 1/00 – February 2000
- Ecchymosis, blood splash and blood spotting. MTU 4/97 – July 1997