Meat Slaughter and Processing Plants’ Traceability Levels Evidence From Iowa

Table 2: Meat and Poultry Slaughter and Processing Plants’ Forward Traceability Practices (Identifies and tracks its products, by
production lot, forward to specific buyers (not consumers) of its products) ^{1, 2}

Number of Plants____________________	All Meat 598	All Poultry 219	Very Small Meat 391	Very Small Poultry 27	Small Meat 154	Small Poultry 64	Large Meat 53	Large Poultry 128
Use the practice now	53.5 %	82.6 %	49.0 %	51.9 %	67.5 %	79.7 %	86.8 %	94.5 %
Expect to begin using the practice	11.6 %	3.7 %
within 1 to 3 years Does not use and does not expect to use	32.3 %	10.4 %
the practice within 1 to 3 years No response/multiple responses/not	3.6 %	3.3 %

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 forward traceability practice. The
conventional levels of significance are used. For both meat and poultry plants, size is found as a factor for both overall and pair-wise
bases at the 1% level.

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