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Food Safety Technologies and HACCP Compliance Survey

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 Findings—Results 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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Updated date: July 12, 2004