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Discover our latest news
American Meat Science Association Launches “The Meat Locker” New website offers extensive online resources to support meat companies of all sizes
AMSA, in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), announces the release of new Beef Marbling Cards, which now includes new image of Moderately Abundant, and images of Abundant and Very Abundant for the first time.
The Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP) provides grants to help eligible processors expand their processing capacity!
77th Proceedings of the RMC have been officially released and are now accessible online!
PORK 101 is hosted by AMSA and is sponsored by the National Pork Board and Merck Animal Health.
The core purpose of AMSA
Cultivate a global community of professionals and students to discover, apply and communicate meat science and technology.
Core Strategies
- Attract, develop and connect meat science talent
- Assert our scientific leadership
- Differentiate, communicate and deliver expanded member value
- Provide value to the international meat science community
- Diversify and strengthen our organizational funding model
AMSA Latest Resource Guides
| Title | Type | Size | Download |
| Salmonella Interventions-Resource Guide | 148 KB | DownloadSalmonella Interventions-Resource Guide | |
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| Color: Factors Impacting - Resource Guide | 86 KB | DownloadColor: Factors Impacting - Resource Guide | |
| Color Chemistry-Resource Guide | 397 KB | DownloadColor Chemistry-Resource Guide | |
| Salmonella Pathogenicity - Resource Guide | 228 KB | DownloadSalmonella Pathogenicity - Resource Guide | |
| Salmonella Overview 2015 | 509 KB | DownloadSalmonella Overview 2015 | |
| Salmonella Enumeration - Resource Guide | 140 KB | DownloadSalmonella Enumeration - Resource Guide | |
| Alternative Curing | 88 KB | DownloadAlternative Curing | |
| Meat Science Lexicon 2.0 | 775 KB | DownloadMeat Science Lexicon 2.0 | |
| Meat Science Lexicon 1.0 | 949 KB | DownloadMeat Science Lexicon 1.0 | |
| Anatomy of a Meat Product Label 2016 | 662 KB | DownloadAnatomy of a Meat Product Label 2016 |
Events and Webinars
AMSA is a far-reaching conduit for academic and professional collaboration and learning.
AMSA brings those in the meat science field together through ways that encourage community and professional development with over 1000 meat scientists representing major university research and teaching institutions and meat processing companies in the United States and internationally.
Anthony W. Kotula, Ph.D.
January Emeritus Spotlight, Former Supervisory Research Food Scientist of the Meat Science Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Chelsie Dahlgren
January Student Spotlight, Master's Student at Mississippi State University
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