The quality assessment of meat is an important process in the slaughterhouses: after the battle process and the view by a veterinarian, employees of quality assurance, for example, determine the slaughter weight and use fat and meat proposal to the commercial class.
“The neutral quality assessment is the basis for a fair billing between farmers and battle businesses,” says Markus Koblmüller, Managing Director of the State Association for Performance Test (LFL), who looks after 25 locations with 200 employees in Upper Austria. The market share is 35 percent. In order to optimize the processes, the Austrian classification services work with a German software company on the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The AI is currently being trained using camera images and the results of the subjective quality assessments. There are three pilot companies that according to Koblmüller for certain areas, such as beef classification, the use should be started this year and gradually expanded.
“Consumers and rural companies benefit from work because they receive fair payment and because their interests are strengthened compared to trade,” says Franz Waldenberger, President of the Upper Austria Chamber of Agriculture.
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