Resources and Training Materials

Templates

• Power Point

Travel

• Travel Application Worksheet
• Travel Voucher Worksheet
• Occupancy Tax Exemption Card

Meat Lab

• Gordon W. Davis Meat Science Laboratory Contract
• Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures for Board
• Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures
• Cooler and Freezer Alarms

Kitchen

• Kitchen Set-Up
• Magi-Grill Operation Instructions

Laboratory

• Laboratory Responsibilities
• Chemical Lab Procedures
• Meat Science Lab Procedures
• Laboratory Compliance Manual
• Reserving for Proximate Analysis and Retail Display Case
• Fat and Moisture Schedule
• Lab Safety Survey
• BSL-2 Emergency Plan
• BSL-2 Training Instructions
• Hazard Communication Program
• Materials Safety Data Sheets and Chemical Emergencies
• Gas Cylinder Tags
• Research Box Labels

Carcass Data Collection

Beef

• Beef Harvest and Cooler Data Collection SOP
• Harvest Muscle Samples from Bovine Semi-Membranosus Post-Mortem
• Packing Plant Tour

Pork

• Pork Carcass Data Collection

Forms 

• Bruises & KPH
• Carcass ID & HCW
• Marbling & Color Score
• Defects & Bruising
• Eartag
• KPH
• Lean & Bone Maturity
• Liver Score
• Marbling, Color Score, Defect
• PYG & APYG
• REA

Laboratory Analyses

Procedures

• Analytical Balance
• Atomic Absorption
• Calibrating the Analytical Balances and Scales
• Calibrating a Pipette
• Flash Freezing Sample with Liquid Nitrogen and Homogenizing in a Nutribullet
• Mineral Analysis
• Good Clinical Practises in Data Collection, Management and Storage
• Proximate Analysis FOSS
• Proximate Analysis FOSS (new machine)
• Determination of Solube and Total Collagen
• Sarcomere Length- Preparation of Muscle fro Laser Diffraction
• Shear Force- Warner Bratzler
• Silex - Cooking Steaks for Shears
• Slice Shear Force
• Slice Shear Force, Cooked Color, Warner Bratzler Shear Force using one steak
• Tenderness Modeling Steak Sample

Forms

• pH Form
• Proximate Form
• Shear Force Post-Cooking Form
• Shear Force Pre-Cooking Form
• SSF Form
• TTU Minolta Color
• Warner Bratzler Shear Force Form 

Protocols 

• Sensory Preparation
• MSA Coding Alphabet
• MSA Grill Kitchen and Serving Room Master List
• MSA Roast Master List
• MSA Slow Cook Master List
• MSA Stir Fry Cooking Schedule
• MSA Style Consumer Data Entry OP
• MSA Travel Consumer Packing List 

Forms

• Consumer Ballot 8-Point Scale
• Consumer Demographic Survey
• Consumer Screening Form
• Consumer WTP Line Scale
• Ground Beef Color Ground Beef Initial Color 
• Beef Sensory Form
• Cooked Color Ballot
• Ground Beef Sensory Form