CFS MasterTrack: A New Standard In Meat Analysis

CFS MasterTrack determines the fat and lean meat contents while grinding. After conducting an extensive series of tests, the Federal Institute for Nutrition and Food, previously the BAFF, confirms: It does not matter whether it is pork, beef or poultry – CFS MasterTrack delivers the most accurate results and is setting new standards in the process. Batches of beef and pork can even be analysed with the same preset.

So the accuracy of the CFS MasterTrack has now been officially confirmed. Extensive series of tests, which were monitored by the Federal Research Centre for Nutrition and Food, formerly BAFF, and conducted by the renowned LSG-ELAB have shown: With CFS MasterTrack, pork, beef and lamb can be analysed in exactly the same way as poultry. That applies as much to fresh material as to frozen material or a mixture of both. So the Federal Research Centre for Nutrition and Food comes to the unambiguous conclusion: "CFS is setting new standards with their recent development of MasterTrack in the area of online analysis in the meat products industry."

Exact and efficient
The CFS MasterTrack is aiming to achieve the most accurate results within a broad spectrum. Batches with a fat content between 5 and 80 percent are reliably analysed – and this is even with the same calibration. In all the series of tests carried out, what is called the standard error of prediction is less than 1 percent. You can work on beef and pork with the same presetting.

All this also provides for a precise production process, which is as simple as it is efficient. CFS MasterTrack is fully integrated into the Grinder. While traditional systems record the fat content of meat relatively late in the process, CFS MasterTrack provides reliable data right at the beginning of the production line. Any adjustments can be made immediately and without delay.

Revolutionary technology that pays for itself
There are many benefits to this revolutionary process – and they pay for themselves. Because of the continuous analysis of meat in the product flow, a high degree of representativeness has been reached. The problem of manual handling when determining fat content – manually removing, preparing and separate analysis with a probe – is no more. Unlike other measurement techniques on the market, the meat is neither pressed nor must additional, expensive and quality-reducing mixing times be taken into account. CFS MasterTrack measures the fat content of the meat, without interrupting the production process or affecting the product in any way. In short: because of the high accuracy and reliability of CFS MasterTrack, the safety-related addition of lean meat, lean give-away, is reduced by an average of two to three percent. That saves money – on a daily basis.

SOURCE; CFS