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21st Century Meat Inspector project report

Poultry is the most widely consumed meat in the UK, and its effective inspection within processing facilities is essential to ensure regulatory compliance. Poultry inspection is performed manually and is extremely challenging due to the short time available to inspect each bird and the sustained lev...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Watson, Ahmed Rady, Crispin Coombs, Alicia Parkes, Robert Moss, Ashkan Ajeer
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Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19619628.v1
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author Nicholas Watson
Ahmed Rady
Crispin Coombs
Alicia Parkes
Robert Moss
Ashkan Ajeer
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Ashkan Ajeer
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description Poultry is the most widely consumed meat in the UK, and its effective inspection within processing facilities is essential to ensure regulatory compliance. Poultry inspection is performed manually and is extremely challenging due to the short time available to inspect each bird and the sustained level of concentration required.  The project focused specifically on post-mortem inspection of poultry, adopting a benefits realisation approach to determine the requirements for any new technologies and ensure that business benefits are delivered to all stakeholders within the poultry chain.  This interdisciplinary project included expertise in a variety of complimentary inspection technologies; optical (visual, Near-Infrared, Infrared, Hyperspectral), X-ray and Ultrasonic and IT-enabled benefits realisation management with the Hartree Centre (STFC), a food business operator (referred to throughout as Food Co.) and CSB as project partners. The main findings of the project include: the main requirements for any new digital technologies to assist meat inspectors (MIs) and poultry facilities were identified as: clear business benefits; robust and reliable; easy to use and clean deep learning can be used to identify abnormal colour from carcass images with a sufficient number of training images, but more efficient data labelling methods are required hyperspectral optical and X-ray imaging methods can identify quality issues such as wooden breast and white stripe in chicken breasts.
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spelling rr-article-196196282022-04-13T00:00:00Z 21st Century Meat Inspector project report Nicholas Watson (7205597) Ahmed Rady (8073326) Crispin Coombs (1255719) Alicia Parkes (7198163) Robert Moss (155147) Ashkan Ajeer (12434784) Artificial intelligence Food industry Food inspection Poultry <p>Poultry is the most widely consumed meat in the UK, and its effective inspection within processing facilities is essential to ensure regulatory compliance. Poultry inspection is performed manually and is extremely challenging due to the short time available to inspect each bird and the sustained level of concentration required. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The project focused specifically on post-mortem inspection of poultry, adopting a benefits realisation approach to determine the requirements for any new technologies and ensure that business benefits are delivered to all stakeholders within the poultry chain. </p> <p><br></p> <p>This interdisciplinary project included expertise in a variety of complimentary inspection technologies; optical (visual, Near-Infrared, Infrared, Hyperspectral), X-ray and Ultrasonic and IT-enabled benefits realisation management with the Hartree Centre (STFC), a food business operator (referred to throughout as Food Co.) and CSB as project partners.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The main findings of the project include:</p> <p><br></p> <ul> <li>the main requirements for any new digital technologies to assist meat inspectors (MIs) and poultry facilities were identified as: clear business benefits; robust and reliable; easy to use and clean</li> <li>deep learning can be used to identify abnormal colour from carcass images with a sufficient number of training images, but more efficient data labelling methods are required</li> <li>hyperspectral optical and X-ray imaging methods can identify quality issues such as wooden breast and white stripe in chicken breasts.</li> </ul> <p><br></p> 2022-04-13T00:00:00Z Text Report 2134/19619628.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/report/21st_Century_Meat_Inspector_project_report/19619628 OGL
spellingShingle Artificial intelligence
Food industry
Food inspection
Poultry
Nicholas Watson
Ahmed Rady
Crispin Coombs
Alicia Parkes
Robert Moss
Ashkan Ajeer
21st Century Meat Inspector project report
title 21st Century Meat Inspector project report
title_full 21st Century Meat Inspector project report
title_fullStr 21st Century Meat Inspector project report
title_full_unstemmed 21st Century Meat Inspector project report
title_short 21st Century Meat Inspector project report
title_sort 21st century meat inspector project report
topic Artificial intelligence
Food industry
Food inspection
Poultry
url https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19619628.v1