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Massimiliano Petracci

Full Professor

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGR/20 Aquaculture, Poultry and Rabbit Science

Coordinator of PhD Programme in Agricultural, Environmental and Food Science and Technology

Research

Keywords: Poultry Rabbit Meat quality Broiler breast abnormalities Meat processing Seafood quality

Research activity involve several aspects of poultry and rabbit production and product quality and currently is mainly focused on the following topics:

• Nutritional value and technological properties of meat as affected by genotype, housing and feeding in poultry and rabbits
• Influence of preslaughter factors on slaughtering yield and meat quality in poultry and rabbits
• Estimation and quality characterization of the main meat abnormalities in poultry (PSE-like, oregon disease, white-striping, wooden-breast and spaghetti-meat)
• Technologies and functional ingredients for improving processing yields and quality traits of processed poultry and rabbit meat
• Methods for assessing quality properties of poultry and rabbit meat and seafood