Table 1: Meat and Poultry Slaughter and Processing Plants’ Backward Traceability Practices (Identifies and tracks its products, by
production lot, backward to specific animal/bird growers) 1, 2
|
Number of Plants____________________ |
All 598 |
All 219 |
Very 391 |
Very 27 |
Small 154 |
Small 64 |
Large 53 |
Large 128 |
|
Use the practice now |
52.5 % |
78.7 % |
52.1 % |
55.6 % |
51.3 % |
79.7 % |
62.3 % |
85.9 % |
|
Expect to begin using the practice |
11.6 % |
4.3 % | ||||||
|
within 1 to 3 years Does not use and does not expect to use |
32.4 % |
13.5 % | ||||||
|
the practice within 1 to 3 years No response/multiple responses/not |
3.5 % |
3.6 % |
applicable (write in)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Source: Cates. et al. 2006
1 “...” indicates no data availability.
2 Chi-square tests are applied to verify if size is statistically significant factor in adopting the backward traceability practice. The
conventional levels of significance are used. For meat plants, size is not found as a factor for both overall and pair-wise bases. For
poultry plants, size is found as a factor at the 1% overall, large versus very small plants at the 1%, small versus very small plants at the
5% (with p-value of 0.019), but not for large versus small plants.
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