Title:Diffusion of Protease into Meat & Bone Meal for Solubility Improvement and Potential Inactivation of the BSE Prion Principle Investigator: Brian Coll, Rafael Garcia, and William Marmer Year: 2005 Objective: The present research uses the commercial protease Versazy- meTM, and treats its ability to inactivate BSE prions as a given, based on previous literature. The … Continued
Title: Low Ash MBM and Poultry Meal – Infrastructure Applications for Terminal Velocity Separated (Elutriated) Product Principle Investigator: Gennero Maffia Year: 2004 Objective: 1. Fractionate the MBM into a meat rich portion and a bone rich portion 2. Test the bone portion in infrastructure (large volume, low margin) applications 3. Process the lipids in the … Continued
Title: Development of monoclonal antibody-based immunoassay for rapid detection of sheep and deer/elk in rendered meats Principle Investigator: Peggy Hsieh Year: 2002 Objective: (1) Preparing and Characterizing Antigens: Characterize the species-specific region on sheep and deer/elk troponin I from sheep and deer/elk muscle, respectively and identify other major species marker proteins from sheep and deer/elk … Continued