Defining Alberta Beef
Alberta Beef is a consumer branded product, and as such is driven and supported by consumers. Alberta Beef Producers has promoted Alberta Beef for over 30 years and the brand is widely used by retail and food service establishments in Alberta and other parts of Canada.
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The Alberta Meat Inspection Act and Meat Inspection Regulation outline the requirements that all provincial licence holders must meet, including assurances that meat and meat products are safe and that animals are handled humanely at slaughter.
Inspection
Beef sold in Alberta must be inspected.
The Alberta government issues licenses for different types of slaughter operations, including inspected as well as uninspected operations.
Uninspected meat is only for consumption by the animal owner and their household; it is not for sale or further distribution.
Beef is graded in two ways:
- quality grades are used in regards to tenderness, juiciness and flavor; and
- yield grades are a prediction of the percentage of boneless retail cuts from the four primal cuts (round, loin, rib and chuck).
A beef carcass is graded by a certified and designated grader only after it bears a Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) meat inspection stamp.
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