gracey's meat hygiene gracey's meat hygiene gracey's meat hygiene is a veterinary textbook which deals with meat inspection and meat hygiene control. the eleventh edition of the book was published in 2015. gracey's meat hygiene authordavid s. collins and robert j. huey (editors)published1949 (1st ed.), 2015 (11th ed.)publisherwiley-blackwellisbn978-1-118-65002-8 background the book is an expansion of the book textbook of meat hygiene (by horace thornton and j. f. gracey) which itself is an expansion of thornton's textbook of meat inspection (published 1949).