Update Nov 5, 2002
Draft |
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Defect Categories |
Pilot Performance Standards Based on Traditional
Inspection
(% of carcasses) |
HIMP Plant Performance During FSIS Inspector Verification
Checks from 21 Plants (Average)*
(% of carcasses) |
Food Safety 1
Condition- Infectious
(e.g., Septicemia, toxemia) |
0.1%** |
0.003%
|
Food Safety 2
Contamination-Digestive Content
(e.g., fecal material) |
1.5%**
|
0.1%. |
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OCP 1 Condition-Animal Diseases
(e.g., airsacculitis)
|
1.7%
|
1.1% |
|
OCP 2 Condition- Miscellaneous
(e.g., bruises, sores, and other processing defects) |
52.5%
|
26.9%
|
|
OCP 3 Contamination-Digestive Content
(e.g., ingesta) |
18.6%
|
10.0% |
|
OCP 4 Dressing Defects- Other
(e.g., feathers)
|
80.0%
|
60.8%
|
|
OCP 5 Dressing Defects- Digestive Tract
Tissue
(e.g., bursa, cloaca) |
20.8%
|
8.1.%
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Period of Data Collection: Sep 18, 2000 -
Sep 30, 2002
* Includes 21 Amick Farms, Cagle’s – AL,
Cagle’s – KY, Choctaw Foods, Claxton Poultry Columbia Farms,
Conagra, Gold Kist, Golden Rod Broilers, Marshall Durbin –
AL, Marshall Durbin – MS, OK Foods – AR, OK Foods – OK,
Perdue Farms, Inc – NC, Pilgrim’s Pride – Nacogdoches,TX,
Pilgrim’s Pride – Mt Pleasant,TX, Pilgrim’s Pride – WV,
Rocco Farm Foods, Simmons Foods, Townsends Inc – AR, and
Townsends Inc – NC.
3,512,550 birds selected for Food Safety verification checks
987,250 birds selected for Other Consumer Protection
verification checks
** FSIS has a zero tolerance policy for
Food Safety 1 & 2
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