Importance of quality assurance

Quality assurance

The maintenance of a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production

Examples in livestock production

Daily production practices, consumer expectations

BQA

Beef quality assurance (to ensure product safety and quality and that the product lives up to the expectations of the consumer)

Consumer expectations

Must have product integrity, and eating satisfaction

Product integrity

Food safety where cattle were raised, animal health, care, handling and wellbeing

Eating satisfaction

flavor profile, tenderness and juiciness

Things to look out for

Needles that may have broken off into the cow, darker meet/ red meat is good, how the industry hangs there meat, to look out for a cow laying down