Guaranteeing Canadian lamb meat quality using near infrared spectroscopy on intact rack

Lamb racks from commercial carcasses were scanned using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). The predictions accuracies (R2) for meat quality traits were assessed. Prediction accuracy ranged between 0.40 and 0.94. When predicted values were used to classify meat based on quality, 88.7- 95.2% of samples were correctly classified as quality-guaranteed.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author