Postimplementation costs of HACCP and SSOP's in great plains meat plants

The objective of this analysis was to determine the costs of the developmen t and implementation of HACCP, SSOP's, Salmonella Performance Standards, an d Generic E. coli Process Control Testing for small meat and poultry plants . USDA estimated these costs to be $0.0024 per pound with the release of th e Pathogen Reduction Ruling. Weighted averages from two other studies estim ating implementation costs were $0.0005 and $0.0139 per pound To collect da ta and measure actual implementation costs, phone surveys and personal inte rviews were conducted with small meat (defined as having 10 or more employe es but less than 500) slaughter and processing plants in North Dakota, Sout h Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. The analysis suggests t hat the plants incurred an average of $0.009 per pound in development and i mplementation costs for these regulations.