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Pathogen Reduction/HACCP & HACCP Implementation

August 31, 2000

FSIS Inspection Results Measuring HIMP Plant Performance Against Pilot Performance Standards
For The Period  2/1/00 – 7/31/00

 

Pilot Performance Standards Based on Traditional Inspection

HIMP Plant Performance During FSIS Inspector Verification Checks from 7 Plants*
 

Food Safety 1

Condition- Infectious
(e.g., Septicemia, toxemia)

 

0.1%**

 

0.0%***

Food Safety 2

Contamination-
Digestive Content
(e.g., fecal material)

 

1.5%**

 

0.2%
 

OCP 1

Condition-
Animal Diseases
(e.g., airsacculitis)

 

1.7%

 

0.9%

OCP 2

Condition- Miscellaneous
(e.g., bruises, sores, and other processing defects)

 

52.5%

 

21.4%

OCP 3

Contamination-
Digestive Content
(e.g., ingesta)

 

18.6%

 

9.5%

OCP 4

Dressing Defects- Other
(e.g., feathers)

 

80.0%

 

47.8%

OCP 5

Dressing Defects-
(e.g., Digestive Tract Tissue)

 

20.8%

 

5.6%

 

* Includes:

 7 Plants including; Gold Kist, Rocco Farm Foods, Choctaw Foods, Claxton Poultry, Townsends Inc., Cagle’s – AL, and Cagel’s-Keystone, KY
206,090 birds had verification checks for Food Safety
98,430 birds had verification checks for OCP

** FSIS has a zero tolerance policy for Food Safety 1 & 2

*** Rounded to nearest 100,000th of a percent Food Safety 1 = .00070%

 

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