Global Leadership in Education and Research

Questions
• Muscle Facts 
• Meat Facts 
• Nutrient Content
• Ag Statistics
• Ask Dr. Romans

Interactive lessons

Faculty & Staff

Food Safety
• HACCP 
• USDA  • FDA 

UIUC Information
• Phonebook • Maps 
• Campus Units
• Calendar • Advising 
• Graduate Study

Resources
• Alumni • CFAR
• Experiment Station
• Partnership Illinois

Meat Science & Muscle Biology

Meat Science and Muscle Biology are parts of the Department of Animal Sciences. The Meat Science Laboratory contains modern molecular, biochemical and cell culture laboratories as well as a USDA inspected abattoir and processing plant.

Faculty teach in ten courses, from Meat to Metabolism and our students have been featured in the Wall Street Journal. A full spectrum of basic and applied research focus on making better, safer, more nutritious and more affordable food for mankind.

Questions about muscle or meat? Ask Dr. John R. Romans, Professor Emeritus, former Department Head, Fellow of the American Society of Animal Science and internationally respected educator and author.

By Romans, Costello, Carlson, Greaser & Jones. 2001.