Darryl D'Souza

Guaranteeing the quality and integrity of pork - An Australian case study

HA Channon, DN D'Souza, RG Jarrett, GSH Lee, RJ Watling, JYC Jolley, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2018  |  Meat Science

Electrical stimulation or moisture infusion improves the eating quality attributes of loin and silverside cuts from female and immunocastrated male pigs

HA Channon, DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2018  |  Meat Science

Validating post-slaughter interventions to produce consistently high quality pork cuts from female and immunocastrated male pigs

HA Channon, DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2018  |  Meat Science

Dietary lecithin improves feed efficiency without impacting meat quality in immunocastrated male pigs and gilts fed a summer ration containing added fat

Henny Akit, Cherie Collins, Fahri Fahri, Alex Hung, Darryl D'Souza, Brian Leury, Frank Dunshea

Journal article  |  2018  |  Animal Nutrition

Diet composition and slaughter age up to 24 weeks have minimal impact on pork eating quality of loin steaks and silverside roasts from female pigs

HA Channon, DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2018  |  Meat Science

Consumers want pork with 'adjectives'

DN D'Souza, D Cleary, RJE Hewitt

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Animal Production Science

Pork is the most consumed meat globally, but its consumption varies widely across the major pork-consuming nations. Consumers cons..

Developing a cuts-based system to improve consumer acceptability of pork: Impact of gender, ageing period, endpoint temperature and cooking method

HA Channon, DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2016  |  Meat Science

Metabolic modifiers as performance-enhancing technologies for livestock production

FR Dunshea, DN D'Souza, HA Channon

Journal article  |  2016  |  Animal Frontiers

Estimating the impact of various pathway parameters on tenderness, flavour and juiciness of pork using Monte Carlo simulation methods

HA Channon, AJ Hamilton, DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2016  |  Meat Science

Antibiotic Growth Promotants

FR Dunshea, DN D'Souza, BB Jensen, RM Engberg

Reference Work  |  2014

Aitchbone hanging and ageing period are additive factors influencing pork eating quality

HA Channon, MR Taverner, DN D'Souza, RD Warner

Journal article  |  2014  |  Meat Science

The effects of abattoir, carcase weight (60 or 80 kg HCW), hanging method (Achilles or aitchbone) and ageing period (2 or 7 day po..

The interaction between ractopamine supplementation, porcine somatotropin and moisture infusion on pork quality

KL Moore, BP Mullan, DN D'Souza

Journal article  |  2012  |  Meat Science

Nutritional strategies affect carcass and pork quality but have no effect on intramuscular fat content of pork

DN D'Souza, BP Mullan, DW Pethick, JR Pluske, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2012  |  Animal Production Science

The use of nucleotides, vitamins and functional amino acids to enhance the structure of the small intestine and circulating measures of immune function in the post-weaned piglet

KL Moore, BP Mullan, JR Pluske, JC Kim, DN D'Souza

Journal article  |  2011  |  Animal Feed Science and Technology

Dietary lecithin improves eating quality, dressing percentage and meat colour in finisher gilts

H AKIT, CL Collins, F Fahri, T Hung, DN D'Souza, BJ Leury, FR Dunshea

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA)

High boar taint risk in entire male carcases

DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea, RJE Hewitt, BG Luxford, D Meaney, F Schwenke, RJ Smits, RJ van Barneveld

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA)

Physi-TraceTM: A demonstration of rapid traceability for Australian Pork

CD May, CJ Scadding, RL Scadding, B Salter, DN D'Souza, RJ Watling, GSH Lee

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA)

Dietary lecithin improves the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids in pork

H AKIT, F Fahri, T HUNG, DN D'Souza, BJ Leury, EN Ponnampalam, FR Dunshea

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA)

Influence of housing type and age in female pigs. 1. Effects on growth performance and fat deposition and distribution in the carcasses of female Large White x Landrace pigs grown from 5.5 to 120 kg liveweight

M Trezona, BP Mullan, DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea, DW Pethick, M D'Antuono, J Speijers, JR Pluske

Journal article  |  2011  |  Animal Production Science

Influence of housing type and age in female pigs. 2. Effects on biochemical indicators of fat metabolism and the fatty acid profile of belly fat and back fat depots

M Trezona, BP Mullan, DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea, DW Pethick, M D'Antuono, M McGrath, JR Pluske

Journal article  |  2011  |  Animal Production Science

Dietary lecithin alters the expression of genes involved in skeletal muscle collagen synthesis and degradation

H AKIT, CL Collins, F Fahri, T HUNG, DN D'Souza, BJ Leury, FR Dunshea

Conference Proceedings  |  2011  |  Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Pig Science Association (APSA)

Minimum levels of inclusion of copper and zinc proteinate amino acid chelates in growing and finishing pig diets

A Hernández, JR Pluske, DN D'Souza, BP Mullan

Journal article  |  2009  |  Animal Production Science

The influence of increasing dietary concentrations of copper (Cu), together with low or high inclusion levels of zinc (Zn), on per..

Effects of continual fluctuation in feed intake on growth performance response and carcass fat-to-lean ratio in grower-finisher pigs

BP Mullan, M Trezona, DN D'Souza, JC Kim

Journal article  |  2009  |  Journal of Animal Science

Levels of copper and zinc in diets for growing and finishing pigs can be reduced without detrimental effects on production and mineral status

A Hernández, JR Pluske, DN D'Souza, BP Mullan

Journal article  |  2008  |  animal

One hundred and sixty pigs were used to evaluate dietary copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) supplementation on performance, fecal mineral l..

Pork quality: Meeting the consumers' needs

D D'Souza

Book Chapter  |  2007

Quantifying the hydration status of lambs in relation to carcass characteristics

RH Jacob, DW Pethick, P Clark, DN D'Souza, DL Hopkins, J White

Journal article  |  2006  |  Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

Effects of dietary factors and other metabolic modifiers on quality and nutritional value of meat

FR Dunshea, DN D'Souza, DW Pethick, GS Harper, RD Warner

Journal article  |  2005  |  Meat Science

Effect of teeth eruption on growth performance and meat quality of sheep

SC Wiese, DW Pethick, JTB Milton, RH Davidson, BL McIntyre, DN D'Souza

Journal article  |  2005  |  Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

Two hundred and forty sheep of about 15 months of age were used in this experiment to investigate the impact of dentition category..

The impact of processing on sensory and objective measurements of sheep meat eating quality

JM Thompson, DL Hopkins, DN D'Souza, PJ Walker, SR Baud, DW Pethick

Journal article  |  2005  |  Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

The impact of processing factors on sheep meat eating quality was investigated in an experiment in which stimulation (stimulation ..

The effect of dietary treatment on meat quality and on consumer perception of sheep meat eating quality

DW Pethick, R Davidson, DL Hopkins, RH Jacob, DN D'Souza, JM Thompson, PJ Walker

Journal article  |  2005  |  Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

The aim of this experiment was to test the effects of dietary treatment on sheep meat eating quality as perceived by untrained Aus..

Effects of animal age on the eating quality of sheep meat

DW Pethick, DL Hopkins, DN D'Souza, JM Thompson, PJ Walker

Journal article  |  2005  |  Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

The aim of this work was to test the effects of animal age on consumer perceptions of sheep meat quality. Experiment 1 tested eati..

The accuracy of dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), weight, and P2 back fat to predict half-carcass and primal-cut composition in pigs within and across research experiments

D Suster, BJ Leury, CD Hofmeyr, DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2004  |  Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

The effect of genotype and castration method on the eating quality characteristics of pork from male pigs

DN D'Souza, BP Mullan

Journal article  |  2003  |  Animal Science

Nutritional manipulation increases intramuscular fat levels in the Longissimus muscle of female finisher pigs

DN D'Souza, DW Pethick, FR Dunshea, JR Pluske, BP Mullan

Journal article  |  2003  |  Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

Dietary conjugated linoleic acid can decrease backfat in pigs housed under commercial conditions

FR Dunshea, E Ostrowska, B Luxford, RJ Smits, RG Campbell, DN D'Souza, BP Mullan

Journal article  |  2002  |  Asian Australian Journal of Animal Science

Housing temperature affects growth performance and carcass quality of pigs

M Trezona, IH Williams, ET Noguiera, DN D'Souza, SM McCullough, RR Nicholls, BP Mullan

Conference Proceedings  |  2002  |  Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The effect of genotype, sex and management strategy on the eating quality of pork

DN D'Souza, BP Mullan

Journal article  |  2002  |  Meat Science

The influence of dietary magnesium supplement type, and supplementation dose and duration, on pork quality and the incidence of PSE pork

DN D'Souza, RD Warner, BJ Leury, FR Dunshea

Journal article  |  2000  |  Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

Dietary magnesium supplementation improves pork quality

DN D'Souza, RD Warner, BJ Leury, FR Dunshea

Conference Proceedings  |  1999  |  MANIPULATING PIG PRODUCTION VII, PROCEEDINGS

Effect of mixing boars during lairage and pre-slaughter handling on pork quality

DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea, BJ Leury, RD Warner

Journal article  |  1999  |  Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

Effect of dietary magnesium supplementation and mixing-boars during lairage on pork quality

DN D'Souza, RD Warner, BJ Leury, FR Dunshea

Conference Proceedings  |  1999  |  MANIPULATING PIG PRODUCTION VII, PROCEEDINGS

The effect of handling pre-slaughter and carcass processing rate post-slaughter on pork quality

DN D'Souza, FR Dunshea, RD Warner, BJ Leury

Journal article  |  1998  |  Meat Science

Effect of on-farm and pre-slaughter handling of pigs on meat quality

DN D'Souza, RD Warner, FR Dunshea, BJ Leury

Journal article  |  1998  |  Australian Journal of Agricultural Research