Update Nov 5, 2002
Draft |
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Defect Categories
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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%
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Food Safety 2
Contamination-Digestive Content
(e.g., fecal material) |
1.5%**
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0.1%. |
| OCP 1
Condition-Animal Diseases
(e.g., airsacculitis)
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1.7%
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1.1%
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| OCP 2
Condition- Miscellaneous
(e.g., bruises, sores, and other processing defects)
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52.5%
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26.9%
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| OCP 3
Contamination-Digestive Content
(e.g., ingesta)
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18.6%
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10.0% |
| OCP 4
Dressing Defects- Other
(e.g., feathers)
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80.0%
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60.8%
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| OCP 5
Dressing Defects- Digestive Tract Tissue
(e.g., bursa, cloaca)
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20.8%
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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
** FSIS has a zero tolerance policy for Food Safety 1 & 2
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