WASHINGTON — USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Service conducted its sixth annual Food Defense Plan Survey in July 2011. As in 2010, the survey covered meat and poultry slaughter and processing establishments, processed egg products plants and official import inspection establishments.
The most recent survey found that 75 percent of all establishments have a functional food defense plan, exceeding the fiscal year 2011 goal of 74 percent. As in previous years, larger establishments have a higher rate of implementing food defense plans.
Percentages for the different sizes of plant were: large, 96 percent; small, 84 percent; and very small, 65. . .
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