Table 2. Effects of carcass vascular rinsing¹⁾ on oxygen consumption and sarcomere length on beef loin

Treatment	Oxygen consumption (%)	Sarcomere length (μm)
CN	2.58^a	1.42^a
RC	2.45^a	1.80^b

Oxygen consumption on ground beef loin from Kethavath et al. (2020); sarcomere length on beef loin muscle from Kethavath et al. (2022).
Carcass chilling treatment: CN, not vascularly rinsed; RC, Rinse & Chill^®.
Means within a dependent variable with unlike superscript letters are different (p<0.05).