Abstract: Near-infrared spectroscopy(NIRS)technology is a nondestructive analysis technology to develop the qualitative and quantitative relationship between tested sample index and spectral information using chemometrics methods. Due to the advantages including nondestructive,without pretreatment and rapid information acquisition,NIRS has been studied in the meat adulteration by means of building mathematic model with high precision and stability to predict the adulterated meat ingredients and adulterated amount in a rapid way,showing a great potential in application at present. In this paper,we review the recent progresses on NIRS for meat adulteration since 2010,which provides data support and reference for the research and development of non-destructive analysis and detection equipment in meat adulteration.