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Meat preservation (including livestock game poultry) includes a set treatment processes for preserving nutritious properties taste texture and color of raw partially cooked or cooked meats while keeping them edible and safe to consume.The invention of such processes can be traced back to antiquity and although some come from 18th and 19th century research the latest discoveries concerning meat preservation stem from nuclear physics and biochemistry.The preservation of the meat has always been a method to prevent against famine but has also acquired a political and economic dimension in the growth of the human population.

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