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Rapid spectroscopic techniques for
monitoring and control of meat processing
and for effective meat science
Jens Petter Wold
Nofima - Norwegian Food Research Institute
ICoMST 2011
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Background: Nofima• Peak competence in applied
biospectroscopy for food analysis
• On-line
– NIR, VIS, spectral imaging
• At-line
– Fluorescence, VIS, NIR, Raman, FT-IR, spectral imaging
• Microscopy of tissues and cells
– Raman, FT-IR
• Chemometrics, multivariate calibration
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Food industry today: Under pressure!
• Consumers demand low prices and high quality
• Increasing focus on nutrition and health
• Increasing demands for product documentation and traceability
• Food production is more and more industrialised
• Strong need for advanced quality measurements for process and
product control
• The ideal measurements is
• rapid non-destructive
• on-line robust
• accurate
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Established on-line methods for meat
• Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR): fat, water, protein in ground meat
• X-rays: fat/water, foreign objects, CT for carcass description
• Microwaves: Water (indirect fat)
• Ultrasound: pork back fat
• Vision systems
• Raman spectroscopy
• Fluorescence spectroscopy
• FT-IR spectroscopy
• and others
Not so established methods for meat
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Challenges with non-destructive measurements
• Foods (meat) are very complex from a measurement point of view!
• Large variations in muscle structures, chemical composition, texture, shape and size
• Main challenge: Representative sampling!
• Different products needs different solutions: Tailor made systems
– Can be too costly for the food industry
– Only profitable “need to have” applications will be implemented
– “Nice to have” is seldom sufficient
• Our focus has been on industry needs
– Not always easy, since the industry does not always know what it needs
– Business strategy?
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Our on-line strategy:
• Focus on ”easy” quality attributes: fat, water, protein, fatty acid
composition, oxidation
– Causal relation between chemistry and spectroscopy
• Difficult heterogeneous samples
• Little emphasis on ”difficult” attributes such as tenderness, water
holding capacity, sensory properties where there is little or no clear
connections between spectroscopy and the chemical/physical
properties.
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Instrumental solution (patented):
Scanning interactance measurement
Conveyor
12 x 50 W, 12°,
halogen lamps
Cylinder optic
Adjustable slit
Illuminated field Scanned field
Imaging
spectrometer
Focusing
Al mirror
Blackened
Al plates
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NIR/VIS interactance imaging scanner
• Produces a 3D multispectral image of the conveyor belt
• 15 wavelengths in VIS/ 15 in NIR
• Handles a conveyor belt speed of 3 m/s
• Does about 10.000 measurements/sec
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NIR image of salmon fillet:
An image for each wavelength / a spectrum in each pixel
• Water
• Fat
• Protein
• Temperature
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Quantitative chemical imaging• Every application requires careful consideration of
– Sampling
– Calibration regime (how to match spectroscopy and reference
values)
– Image segmentation, image processing
– Spectral pre-processing at pixel level
• to avoid effects of variation in sample height, temperature,
colour, etc.
– Multivariate modelling (regression, curve resolution)
– How to apply model on new data
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Chemical images: Fat content in each pixel
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• Calculates average fat content
• Fat distribution can guide
– Automatic trimming/cutting
– Selection of phenotypes for breeding (genetic selection)
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Application: Water content in dried salted cod
Challenges:
• Water is unevenly distributed
• Dry on the outside, wet inside
• Covered with salt
• Varying size and shape
Alternatives:
• Traditional manual grading is expensive and inaccurate
• Lab measurements of water are tedious and destructive
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A shift in paradigm:
From random sampling
10 out of 2000
Full profiling of
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Industrial installation
• Sorting according to water content
• Producer gets correct price
• Avoids reclamations
• Enables optimization of drying process
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• 40 tons per day
• Manual grading is difficult
• Capacity need: 2 crabs per sec.
• Need to sort crabs into 4 quality
classes to optimize production
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Industrial system for crab grading according to
meat content
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How and what do we measure?
• Crabs are scanned on-line on a conveyor with the shell up and
exposed to the scanner
• The crab is measured from above
• Mainly the upper 15 mm is probed
• Multispectral NIR images are captured
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Segmentation:
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Practical results• The crabs are automatically sorted on-line into 4 quality classes.
• Quicker and much more reliable than manual grading, 1-2 crabs /sec
• Yield in process has increased, less waste
• Can guarantee high quality of superior crabs, which is extremely
important to keep the crab market alive
• Systemized data gives overview of seasonal and regional variations
• Will be used to adjust payments to the fisherman
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Spin-offs to meat?
• Fat grading of certain high value cuts
• Fat determination in boxed pork meat
• Online control of fat in batches of beef/pork
• Fat is important to control for quality and profit
• Fat is ”easy” to measure
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Beef processing• 60% of the carcass ends up as beef trimmings
– for meat products
• Batches of beef trimmings are priced according
to fat content
– Low fat gives higher price
– Batch sizes vary from 20 – 400 kg
– Very important for the company
to optimize in order to make profit
• No good way to measure fat content in intact trimmings
– The cutters try to reach target fat content, but difficult
• Fat can be measured in ground meat, but most customers prefer intact trimmings
• Reliable measurements on trimmings would be very valuable for
– Getting the correct price
– Optimised use of raw-materials
– Optimised logistics
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• Trimmings are heterogeneous!
• Vary in type of meat/muscle, colour, structure, size, shape
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Calibration
• Need to record NIR spectra from
meat samples that span fat content
from 2 – 90%
• Under different conditions
• “Big pixel” strategy: need to
calibrate for every situation a pixel
can encounter
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Calibration strategy
– The model can be used on average spectra from meat
trimmings
– And pixel wise in the multispectral images (to show fat
distribution in single trimmings)
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Prediction model
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Applying model on single trimmings• Large prediction errors, especially on fat samples
• As expected…
NMR measured fat (%)
NIR
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Prediction error vs. batch size
• Prediction error decreases rapidly with increasing batch size
• Depends on heterogeneity of trimmings
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On-line estimation of fat in batch
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Flow weight
Laser height measure
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Installation in Norwegian beef cutting line
• Average fat content in batches
of intact trimmings is
continuously monitored and
controlled
• Cutters can adjust the amount
of fat going into the batch
• Much better control of end
product quality
• Better utilization of raw
materials
• More motivating for the
workers
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Repeatability for 250 kg batches
NIR estimated fat in 250 kg batches
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Automatic detection of connective tissue (CT)
• Can detect surface
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– CT
– A-priori knowledge
about cutting patterns
Sample: CT3B
Sample: CT3B
Fat prediction: 3.5 % mean fat
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Summary meat batches1. From manual, subjective sorting: imprecise fat levels, difficult to control
2. To measurement on intact beef trimmings, which enables simple control of the
cutting line (implemented today)
3. To automatic sorting of intact trimmings into batches of pre-defined fat content.
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Automatic fat and
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Automatic sorting
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Today Tomorrow
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Sorting algorithm: Simulated example (real data)Sorting of 1000 trimmings into 3 batches: 6%, 14%, 21%
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Grading of high value cuts: pork loins
• Scan of whole pork loins
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– Fat content
• Probably good enough for
sorting into 3 fat classes
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Fat content in boxed pork trimmings
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Monitoring core temperature in liver pate by NIR
• Important to ensure temp above 72°C
• Check that desired core temp is reached for each product
• Ensure that temp is not too high (with regard to product quality as well as
power consumption)
Baking
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How does it work?
• A shift in the water peak as function of temperature
• Works on products of max thickness of about 4 cm
• Products should be fairly equal in shape and size
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Prediction model for core temperature
Accuracy: ± 1.75oC
R2 = 0.95
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Different heating
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On-line core temp in fish cakes – no contact• Possible to measure core
temp in fish cakes and liver
pate with accuracy of about +/- 2°C
• Good enough for process
control
• Enables optimisation and
control of heating process
• Can also be used to check
cooling chains
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Low cost instrument
• For rapid screening of samples
• Not specific but effective
• Used by companies for shelf life
studies of new products
• Quality control of e.g. freeze stored
pork fat
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Raman spectroscopy – basic principles
- Rayleigh scatter
- Absorption
- Fluorescence
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- Raman scatter!
• Probes fundamental molecular vibrations
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Raman and food analysis
• Rapid and non-destructive
• Qualitative and quantitative information
• Little or no sample preparation
• Sampling properties (liquids, “slurries”, semi-solids, solids, gases)
• Contact and non-contact measurements
• Analysis through packaging
• Water is a non-efficient Raman scatterer
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Raman spectroscopy – basic principles
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Raman and fatty acid characterisation
• Potential known for several decades
– Level of carbon-carbon unsaturation
– Conjugation
– Cis/trans content
– Carbon chain length
– Groups of fatty acids (SAT, MUFA, and PUFA)
– Single fatty acid content
• Majority of work on pure fats and oils
• Few studies on adipose tissue
Refs.:
Beattie, J.R. et al. Lipids. 41, 287 (2006).
Afseth, N.K. et al. Anal. Chim. Acta 572, 85 (2006).
Olsen, E.F. et al. Meat science. 76, 628 (2007).
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Benefits and challenges – Sampling volumes
• Small spot size (spot size diameters < mm ) – bulk analysis of
heterogeneous samples?
• Qualitative and quantitative characterisation of components in
heterogeneous samples
• Spatial profiling of single components
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Monitoring distribution of injected PUFA in beef using
Raman spectroscopy
• Measurements directly on intact
meat tissue
• 5 seconds exposure time
• Tool for mapping the distribution of
injected oils in meat tissue
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FT-IR and Raman microscopy
• Can measure different spots within a cell
• Enables very detailed microspectroscopic studies of cells
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Raman: Conclusive remarks and future thoughts
• Good and promising results obtained for parameters like C18:0,
C18:1, trans fatty acids, CLA, SAT, MUFA, and the iodine value
• Promising rapid tool for crude estimation of the fatty acid composition
of animal tissue – screening and selection of samples for thorough
chromatographic analysis.
• Powerful tool for microscopic studies.
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Summary• Imaging will replace spot sampling for most heterogeneous food samples
• Distributional information through NIR imaging is and will be beneficial in process optimisation
• The success of an application relies on adequate setup for spectral sampling and reference sampling (which needs careful consideration!)
• New technology is sophisticated, while competence in the meat industry is limited (challenge!)
• New technology requires changes in traditional processes and craftsmanship (challenge!)
• New technology is adapted only when it increases profit notably
– Only when “need to have”, never when “nice to have”
• Spectroscopic techniques can also be used as effective and novel approaches within meat science
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Acknowledgements
• Nofima
– Martin Høy, Vegard Segtnan, Nils Kristian Afseth, Silje Ottestad,
Heidi Njabjerg
• Sintef ICT
– Jon Tschudi, Marion O’Farrel
• The companies QVision, Animalia, Nortura, Faccsa, Rendalen
Kjøtt, Mills, Hitramat
• The projects MeatVision, MeatAutoSort, ProSafeBeef, Crustasea,
KMB Competitive processing
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Novel VIS/NIR instrument • 10 measurements / sec
• Accuracy: ± 1.1% unit for fat in
whole salmon
• To be used within breeding and
genetics
• Continuous evaluation of feeding
regimes
• Measurements in production:
– sorting to different retail
– different markets
– product labelling
VIS/NIR
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Effective breeding and selection• Measurement of fat and pigment in
4500 live salmon
• Heritability factor for fat/pigment can be
calculated
• Selection of the best families for
production
• Saves one generation of fish + a lot of
costly wet chemistry
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Fatty acid treatment of HepG2 cells
• Fatty acid medium:
– Growth media containing100 µM free fatty acid in complex with serum albumin• Palmitic acid (C16:0)
• Oleic acid (C18:1 cis- 9)
• Elaidic acid (C18:1 trans-9)
• Vaccenic acid (C18:1 trans-11)
• Control
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Cell harvest
Transfer of cell pellets to FT-IR transmission plate
Multivariate
data analysis
(PCA)
• Cells washed with proliferation medium and saline buffer
• Cells mechanical dissociated
• Cell suspensions centrifuged
Data pre-processing
(EMSC)
2. Derivative
FT-IR measurements
FT-IR measurements
Acquisition of spectra
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-6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6
x 10-4
-2
-1
0
1
2
3
4
x 10-4
PC 1 67.5%
PC
2
1
8.6%
PPP
P
O
O O
O
EE
EE
VV
VV
-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4
x 10-4
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2
x 10-4
PC 2 18.6%P
C 3
8.
8%
P
PPP
O
OO
O
E
EE
EVV
VV
Grouping according to fatty acid treatment
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• FT-IR suggests that vaccenic acid (18:1trans-11) treatment
induces production of conjugated species (likely CLA), whereas
elaidic acid(18:1trans-9) do not.
• GC verification is difficult due to minute concentrations and
extraction challenges
• FT-IR useful for detailed studies of metabolite production in cells.
High-throughput screening of HepG2 cells