Published in Scientific Works. Series C. Veterinary Medicine, Vol. LXIX, Issue 1
Written by Cătălina Nicoleta BOIŢEANU, Nicoleta CIOCÎRLIE, Florin NEACSU, Laurențiu TUDOR
King scallops (Pecten maximus), Atlantic sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) and Queen scallops (Aequipecten opercularis) were were directly caught from natural environment of North Atlantic Ocean and English Channel Bay of Biscay during four of Walther Herwig’s III (WH III) expeditions and compared with an enlarged range of frozen scallop purchased on the German market. Proximate composition, was examined in the muscle to identify changes as a result of freezing and processing. Investigations took place on-board and at the Max Rubner Institute Hamburg. In the investigated purchased bivalve molluscs samples, in two cases (Pecten spp., Placopecten magellanicus) perfect positive correlations (R2 = 1) were observed between the amount of phosphate and the pH values, while in the other 5 samples, the correlations were negative (R2 = －1). A negative but weak correlation was established between protein percentage and TVB-N % (R2 = － 0.26). There were calculated reasonable positive correlations between phosphate and ice glaze (R2 = 0.48).
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