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RCED-96-62R 1 (1996-02-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclbz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GA ) United States (3O.General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-270846 February 29, 1996 The Honorable Pat Roberts Chairman The Honorable E (Kika) de la Garza Ranking Minority Member Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives The Honorable Steve Gunderson Chairman, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Committee on Agriculture House of Representatives In an effort to improve food safety, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed a regulation in February 1995 that would require all meat and poultry plants to adopt new production control procedures,1 called Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems. Implementing these procedures, which are designed to prevent harmful bacteria from entering the production process, should result in safer meat and poultry products. According to USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the 20-year cost to meat and poultry plants to comply with the proposed regulation is about $2.3 billion. In addition, over the same period, FSIS expects that implementing the new HACCP regulation will reduce the incidence of foodborne illnesses and death, thereby producing potential societal benefits of $6.4 billion to $23.9 billion.2 FSIS is revising 'Proposed rule, Docket No. 93-016P, Pathogen Reduction, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Systems, Federal Register (Feb. 3, 1995). 'In performing the cost-benefit assessment, FSIS used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and USDA's Economic Research Service. The costs and benefits are the present values estimated GAO/RCED-96-62R, Analysis of HACCP Costs and Benefits

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