Roaster Breast Meat Condemned for Cyanosis: A Dark Firm Dry-Like Condition?
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Abstract
A case-control study (n = 68) of roaster chickens condemned for cyanosis was conducted. Color (CIE L*a*b*) and pH were measured at slaughter, and after 24 h aging on ice, at four predetermined sites of the Pectoralis major. Cyanotic carcasses (dark) had a higher pH than controls at the time of slaughter and at 24 h postmortem (P < 0.01). Perimortem pH was significantly correlated with pH at 24 h postmortem (r = 0.64) and also was correlated with lightness (L*) perimortem and postmortem (24 h; r = -0.36 and -0.50, respectively). Perimortem pH was not correlated with meat redness (a*) at slaughter time and after 24 h. Ultimate pH and lightness at 24 h postmortem were also correlated. Tests based on pH, L*, and a* of the P. major were assessed: the sensitivity and specificity at various cut-off points were, respectively, pH(6.3) = 76.47 and 88.24%, L*(41) = 91.18 and 79.41%, and a*(3) = 76.47 and 97.06%. The repeatability (p) of pH and color measurements was excellent and ranged from 0.87 to 0.98. Breast meat from roasters condemned for cyanosis had dark, firm, and dry (DFD)-like traits, and accurate tests based on color and pH could be described as a means of identifying chickens condemned for cyanosis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".