Overview
In January of 2001, ERS, along with Washington State University, conducted
two surveys about food safety technologies and Pathogen Reduction/Hazard
Analysis Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP) compliance. One survey was
answered by 861 meat slaughter and processors, the other by 135 poultry
slaughter and processors. The survey queried processors about several
facets of their operations: the effects of the PR/HACCP rule on plant
operations and costs, plant characteristics, miscellaneous questions,
and food safety questions dealing with plant operations, sanitation, equipment,
product and environmental testing, and dehiding (cattle slaughter only).
Summary results from the survey may be found here, as well as the original
survey forms. More about
the survey...
Data Files
Release Date
Data were released November, 2003. The survey respondents answered questions
as they pertained to the 2000 calendar year.
Feature
Meat and Poultry Plants' Food Safety Investments: Survey FindingsResults from the first national survey of the types and amounts of food safety
investments made by meat and poultry slaughter and processing plants since the
late 1990s provide evidence that market forces have worked in conjunction with
regulation to promote the use of more sophisticated food safety technologies.
From 1996 through 2000, U.S. plants as a group spent about $380 million annually
and made $570 million in long-term investments to comply with USDA's 1996
Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP) regulation,
according to a survey initiated by the Economic Research Service. The U.S. meat
and poultry industry as a whole during the same period spent an additional $360
million on food safety investments that were not required by the PR/HACCP rule.
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