Iowa State University
College of Human Sciences and College of Agriculture College of Human Sciences College of Agriculture


Kenneth Prusa

  Kenneth Prusa
Professor

     

    Education: Ph.D., Food and Nutrition, Kansas State University, 1983

    Interests: Preharvest treatment of pigs for the improvement of pork quality and safety.

    Office: 222C MacKay
    Phone: (515) 294-4323
    Fax: (515) 294-8181

    Email: kprusa@iastate.edu

Publications:


  • Nam, K.C., Prusa, K.J. and Ahn, D.U. 2002. Addition of antioxidants to improve quality and sensory characteristics of irradiated pork patties. Journal of Food Science. 67:2625-2630.
  • Lonergan, S.M., Baas, T.J., Malek, M., Dekkers, J.C.M., Prusa, K. and Rothschild, M. 2002. Correlation among selected pork quality traits. Journal of Animal Science. 80:617-627.
  • Malek, M. Dekkers, J. Lee, H.K., Baas, T.J., Prusa, K. Huff-Lonergan, E. and Rothschild, M.F. 2001. A molecular genome scan analysis to identify chromosal regions influencing economic traits in the pig. II. Meat and muscle composition. Mammalian Genome 12, 637-645.
  • Schoeder, A. L., Mowrey, D.H., Thomas, E.E., Karnak, R.E., Brown, L.A., Mandigo, R.W., McKeith, F.K., Roth, D.M. and Prusa, K.J. 2000. Effects of ractopamine (RAC) on carcass parameters in finishing pigs. Journal of Animal Science. 78:48.
Food Science and Human Nutrition