“…Since the work of Stewart, Zipser, and Watts (1965), several methods have been used to determine these proportions and Tang, Faustman, and Hoagland (2004) have modified Krzywicki's equations, to determine the proportions of MMb, DMb, and MbO 2 , considering wavelength maxima at 503, 557, and 582 nm, respectively. In this paper, the model calculations will be compared against the spatial distributions of the different forms of myoglobin measured by Saenz, Hernandez, Alberdi, Alfonso, and Manuel Dineiro (2008) in a meat cut stored at 20 • C. These data were selected from literature because they give the opportunity to go further in the validation of the mathematical model, and in the discussion of the reaction-diffusion mechanisms, than publications that only measure the myoglobin forms at the surface of the meat. Most of the rate constants of our reaction scheme (Table 1) have been measured in literature at 20 • C. Therefore, our calculations will be performed at this temperature.…”