Production, Processing and Quality Assessment of Livestock Meat Products

Dear Colleagues:

We, the guest editors, cordially invite you to send original scientific contributions to this Special Issue on “Production, Processing and Quality Assessment of Livestock Meat Products” published by MDPI. The topic considers different types of meat and meat products from livestock species produced across the world. This Special Issue will feature a range of contributions, from scientific research articles to reviews.

In recent decades, agri-food chains around the world, including those based on the production of livestock meat, have experienced great challenges, many associated with economic, energy, environmental, migration, insecurity crises, etc.

Meat and meat products, in addition to being foods of high nutritional value due to their essential nutrients, proteins, lipids, vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids and minerals, also have so-called functional components.

However, pressure from society and the end consumers of meat and meat products, among other sources, has made the scientific community reflect and analyze aspects of animal welfare within the production of meat products and the quality in all links and actors in the chain of value, from the primary sector, through transformation and conservation, to their commercialization and consumption, as well as the industry’s contribution to carbon and water footprints and its impact on climate change, directing efforts towards cleaner and more sustainable systems.

This Special Issue on “Production, Processing and Quality Assessment of Livestock Meat Products” seeks high-quality papers focused on meat science and technology research. This topic includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• The production of livestock meat in a different system.
• Meat product processing technologies.
• Ingredients, diets and additives for animal nutrition and meat products.
• Meat quality and safety.
• Mitigation of greenhouse gases in meat production.
• Food development.
• Animal welfare and meat quality.

Prof. Dr. Ignacio Arturo Domínguez Vara
Prof. Dr. Gabriela Maria Grigioni
Prof. Dr. Jacinto Efrén Ramírez-Bribiesca
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.