“…Sheep meat is one of the world's four major meat categories-along with beef, pig meat, and poultry meat as source of proteins for humans. China is now the largest producer, consumer, and importer of sheep meat, given that the sheep meat has become a kind of important food in Chinese domestic consumers' diet structure, especially for higher income consumers even though the product is very expensive (Endo, Silva Sobrinho, Almeida, Lima, & Zeola, 2015). The total sheep production was about The consumers' concern about sheep meat quality and safe has raised across world during the last 10 years because of the outbreak of food quality and safety issues; which have also produced great challenges for quality and safety control in meat industry (Hsu, Chang, & Lin, 2016;Mol, 2014;Lücke & Zangerl, 2014).…”