Modern Technologies in Farm Animal Production: Improving Meat Safety and Nutritional Value

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to contribute to the Special Issue of the Agriculture journal, "Modern Technologies in Farm Animal Production: Improving Meat Safety and Nutritional Value", which aims to present the latest achievements in the field of animal production to improve the nutritional value and safety of meat.

Due to the growing expectations of consumers and meat producers, animal production must constantly evolve and seek out new solutions. Nowadays, consumers want meat with high nutritional value, with beneficial nutritional qualities (high content of protein, presence of bioactive compounds, beneficial aminoacid profile, etc.), without antibiotics, and without residues of heavy metals. Future requirements for animal breeders will not only include improvements in efficiency, sustainability, and animal welfare but also in the production of high-quality meat itself. Thus, both effective technologies and management systems in farm animal production are required. Scientific activity increasingly focuses on feed and nutritional management that can enhance animal productivity and mitigate the ecological impacts of animal production, thereby improving the nutritional value of meat and the implementation of food safety management systems, which are essential for ensuring the safety of meat products. In addition, it is important to consider the breeding of less conventional livestock animals, such as red deer or fallow deer, whose meat is of a high quality but for which breeding systems are not very developed, with those proposed for conventional breed species not always being appropriate. Accordingly, innovation may significantly help in obtaining more sustainable, safe, and high-nutritional-value meat. 

We invite you to submit original scientific papers and review papers on the abovementioned topics. This Special Issue brings together the latest advantages in the development of animal production aimed at obtaining high-quality meat. Contributions related to the influence of environmental factors on meat quality, as well as analyses of the classification and prediction of breeding factors affecting the safety and nutritional quality of meat, are also welcome. We believe that this Special Issue will contribute to the promotion of the latest knowledge for a wide audience, both among livestock breeders and scientists.

Dr. Anna Kononiuk
Guest Editor

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• animal breeding
• meat safety
• nutritional value of meat
• meat quality