RETRACTION: Meat Quality Traits as a Function of Cow Maturity

RETRACTION: S. H. Cho, G. Kang, P. Seong, S. Kang, C. Sun, S. Jang, J. H. Cheong, B. Park, and I. Hwang, “Meat Quality Traits as a Function of Cow Maturity,” Animal Science Journal 88, no. 5 (2017): 781–789, https://doi.org/10.1111/asj.12635.

The above article, published online on 28 September 2016 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted by agreement between the authors; the journal Editor-in-Chief, Ikuyo Nakajima; the Japanese Society of Animal Science; and John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd. The retraction has been agreed upon following an investigation into concerns raised by a third party, which revealed the incorrect labeling of the bands in Figure 1, resulting in erroneous data in Table 3 which significantly affects the conclusions of the paper. Although the authors asked for the retraction, when asked to approve the retraction wording, they remained unresponsive.