The world population increasingly consumes about 300million tonnes of meat up to 2018. As this trend continues due to the increasing world population, plastic becomes necessary to preserve meat, required to meet its corresponding demands. Plastics in the meat industry were of immense benefits that have turned into an environmental burden. This is because they protect meat and other products from spoilage but contain many contaminants in the form of microplastics (MPs) additives and trapped carbons. These contaminants significantly contribute to the health risks meat pose and other global environmental concerns. A further concern is that consumers may likely not be aware of the safety risks of these MPs and their additives. Educating the meat consumers through proper labeling of the plastic packaging with straightforward and understandable terms for MPs migratory possibilities rather than industrial terminologies may likely guide the consumer against MPs consumption.

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The difference and changes in the nutritional components (Protein, fat an calcium) of local and exotic cow breeds (White Fulani, New Jersey and Mixture of the two breeds) were investigated before and after pasteurization of stainless and galvanized steel pasteurizers that was designed and fabricated, at temperature-time combinations of 61 0 C for 30minutes, 66 15seconds as well as at an unquantified tempera samples before and after pasteurization showed significant variation in protein, fat and calcium content (p<0.05) after pasteurization. The protein contents in the unpasteurized samples were 3.65%, 3.49% and 3.62% for White Fulani, New Jersey and heir mixtures respectively. These values decrease to 3.64% in White Fulani but increased to a range of 3.50%-3.64% in New Jersey and the mixture after pasteurization. The values of fat content obtained in the same order were 2.95, 2.85 1227.70, 1117.30 and 1107.70 mg/Kg. Calcium values decreased significantly with increase in temperature in White Fulani to a least value of 11140 it increased significantly as well to a value range of 1120.70 and to a value range of 1110.30 to 1140.00 mg/Kg in the mixture at varying temperatures and material. This evaluation shows that the local breed has better nutritional composition than the foreign breed but the mixture of milk of the two breeds is a promising idea that should be further exploited.