TABLE 1


End of year inspector vacancies1
1992
501
1993
372
1994
441
1995
2728
1996
678
1Inspection assignments covered through temporary combination of inspector assignments. 2Early out retirement option caused a one-time, short-term increase of 190 in permanent full-time vacancies.

















TABLE 2


FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE FIELD OFFICES
End of year 1997 Proposed end of year 1998 Proposed end of year 1999
Inspection operations regional offices
Inspection operations area offices
Import field offices
Compliance area offices
Egg products inspection offices
Inspection operations correlation center
Program review office
District offices
Financial processing center (Urbandale, Iowa)
Technical services center (Omaha, Nebraska)
Personnel operations branch (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Subtotal
Eastern laboratory (Athens, Georgia)
Midwestern laboratory (St. Louis, Missouri)
Western laboratory (Alameda, California)
Tranining center (College Station, Texas)
Grand total


















TABLE 3


FEDERALLY INSPECTED ESTABLISHMENTS
1996 actual 1997 actual 1998 estimated 1999 estimated

1Federal slaughter, processing, and combination plants that are inspected by State employees under federal supervision.

Note.—This does not include plants that are inspected on a voluntary basis only, or inspected food warehouses.

















TABLE 4


CONDEMNED PRODUCT
   Thousands of heads Liquid egg products (millions of pounds)
Poultry Livestock
Fiscal year:
1990 71,056 410 95
1991 74,282 386 104
1992 72,154 401 109
1993 63,927 385 113
1994 69,192 412 128
1995 79,998 469 139
1996 82,665 546 145
1997 87,573 543 153


















TABLE 5


ACCREDITED LABORATORIES
[Dollars in thousands]
Accredited laboratories Number of accreditations Cost
Fiscal year:
1990 265 297 $902
1991 227 292 926
1992 231 313 1,024
1993 243 323 1,091
1994 149 186 672
1995 148 184 440
1996 150 186 360
1997 140 177 363
1998 estimate 141 177 350


















TABLE 6


RESIDUE TEST BY FISCAL YEAR
Year SOS STOP CAST FAST Total
1992 106,133 117,858 79,666 (1) 303,657
1993 101,118 116,600 85,033 (1) 302,751
1994 127,742 93,428 54,783 17,831 293,784
1995 26,273 74,632 79,542 68,410 248,857
1996 17,682 41,428 19,448 96,805 175,363
1997 11,415 37,140 12,529 52,393 113,477

1FAST final analysis completed July 1993.

















TABLE 7


GRANTS TO STATES PROGRAM
[In thousands of dollars]
State 1996 1997 1998
Alabama $1,275 $1,283 $1,321
Alaska 341 346 356
Arizona 585 605 623
Delaware 213 217 223
Florida 1,967 2,029 1300
Georgia 2,404 2,463 2,535
Hawaii 2293
Illinois 4,361 4,673 4,810
Indiana 1,653 1,695 1,745
Iowa 1,011 1,055 1,086
Kansas 1,283 1,404 1,445
Louisiana 1,755 1,836 1,890
Mississippi 1,099 1,098 1,130
Montana 341 353 363
New Mexico 419 421 433
North Carolina 2,849 3,045 3,134
Ohio 4,620 4,610 4,745
Oklahoma 1,617 1,624 1,671
South Carolina 1,133 1,184 1,219
South Dakota 483 478 492
Texas 4,603 4,752 4,891
Utah 771 822 846
Vermont 284 295 304
Virginia 1,293 1,304 1,342
West Virginia 597 606 624
Wisconsin 2,985 3,019 3,107
Wyoming 284 311 320
Total 40,519 41,528 40,955

1The Florida inspection program converted from State to Federal Inspection on December 1, 1997.

2The Hawaii inspection program converted from State to Federal Inspection on November 1, 1995.

















TABLE 8


VOLUME AND COST OF MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTED AT SLAUGHTER
[Dollars in millions]
Millions of pounds Slaughter inspection cost
Red meat Poultry Meat Poultry Total
1986 37,042 24,273 $203
1987 36,300 25,700 212
1988 36,885 28,213 225
1989 37,400 30,268 237
1990 38,413 31,932 248
1991 36,190 33,959 262
1992 38,727 35,679 282
1993 40,688 37,095 296
1994 41,091 39,626 $138 $173 311
1995 43,663 41,303 134 180 314
1996 44,689 43,572 133 185 318
1997 40,522 44,233 139 193 332
1998 estimate 41,002 46,505 143 199 342

Note:—The separate cost of meat and poultry slaughter is not available prior to fiscal year 1994.

















TABLE 9


FSIS ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
Suspensions of inspection n/a n/a n/a n/a 64
Cases received 1,348 1,381 1,039 776 797
Cases filed with hearing clerk 4 8 6 17 6
Prosecutions 22 24 27 41 22
Civil injunctions 0 4 7 7 1
Seizures 1 1 1 1 1
Warning letters 1,721 1,662 1,361 1,063 1,097
Administrative orders 4 7 5 8 12
Detentions 796 672 586 466 327
Pounds detained (mils.) 13.1 22.0 10.1 31.3 44.0
Recalls monitored 36 45 48 23 25
Planned reviews 12,114 11,198 10,170 8,716 7,648
Random reviews1 36,179 35,013 27,732 22,383 18,494
Total reviews 48,293 46,211 37,902 31,099 26,142

1Random reviews declined in fiscal years 1993 and 1994 due to the need to divert personnel to the investigation of problems related to the E. coli outbreaks.



















TABLE 10


FSIS program training costs, Texas A&M University
[In thousands of dollars]
Fiscal year
Contract costs
1988
780
1989
2,372
1990
2,691
1991
2,562
1992
2,997
1993
2,748
1994
2,495
1995
2,852
1996
3,106
1997
3,452


















TABLE 11


POULTRY CARCASSES INSPECTED PER FISCAL YEAR
[In millions]
Year Young Chickens Mature chickens Turkeys Ducks Other
1985 4,427 189 172 21 1.1
1986 4,593 187 192 23 1.2
1987 4,929 193 223 23 1.6
1988 5,149 197 237 24 3.4
1989 5,422 184 244 22 3.0
1990 5,787 184 267 21 3.6
1991 6,146 171 278 21 5.5
1992 6,369 181 280 18 5.1
1993 6,613 171 277 20 5.3
1994 7,014 174 278 21 5.2
1995 7,303 163 279 19 5.5
1996 7,517 154 290 20 5.3
1997 7,646 164 289 22 9.5


















TABLE 12


LABELS PROCESSED AND APPROVED
Year Processed Approved
1984 151,591 129,852
1985 134,432 114,938
1986 149,019 129,819
1987 158,082 135,176
1988 182,403 154,570
1989 180,404 154,799
1990 184,887 160,258
1991 210,957 191,018
1992 192,330 173,801
1993 145,526 135,372
1994 190,439 177,302
1995 202,077 180,262
1996 141,022 120,976
1997 73,010 57,000
1988 estimate 78,000 62,000


















TABLE 13


STAFF YEARS AND COST OF LABELING PROGRAM
Year Staff years Costs
1984 38 $1,288,850
1985 40 1,548,891
1986 39 1,438,084
1987 42 1,796,385
1988 45 1,785,065
1989 42 1,730,913
1990 41 1,920,921
1991 37 2,167,177
1992 30 1,482,392
1993 29 1,372,635
1994 27 1,385,772
1995 27 1,483,795
1996 24 1,350,000
1997 19 1,100,000
1998 estimate 17 1,050,000

Note.—5 staff years were devoted to reviewing labels in 1997.

















TABLE 14


LIVESTOCK INSPECTED PER FISCAL YEAR
[In thousands]
Year Cattle Calves Sheep Goats Swine Equines
1986 34,822 3,215 5,411 147 77,246 171
1987 34,811 2,779 5,096 159 76,388 246
1988 32,790 2,437 4,802 236 79,129 300
1989 31,340 2,177 5,059 230 82,111 343
1990 33,034 1,872 5,141 230 83,856 315
1991 29,620 1,463 4,449 191 81,298 236
1992 30,759 1,353 5,129 225 89,210 244
1993 32,569 1,210 5,094 289 90,481 184
1994 33,179 1,191 4,645 365 90,206 109
1995 35,681 1,395 4,512 333 94,490 113
1996 37,690 1,723 4,268 421 93,397 113
1997 35,809 1,579 3,743 375 78,489 88




















TABLE 15


1995 116,530
1996 113,026
1997 138,120


















TABLE 16


STAFF YEARS SUPPORTED WITH APPROPRIATED FUNDS
Inplant
inspection
staff years
Non-inplant
staff years
Fiscal year:
1990 7,495 1,711
1991 7,593 1,693
1992 7,644 1,742
1993 7,667 1,857
1994 7,829 1,782
1995 8,025 1,773
1996 7,915 1,555
1997 7,935 1,497
1998 (estimated)7,963 1,477

Note: Fiscal years 1995 and later include the Egg Products Inspection and Animal Production Food Safety programs transferred to FSIS during USDA reorganization in 1995.



















TABLE 17


Field automation and information management
[In thousands of dollars]
Fiscal year
Expenditures
1996 $7,230
1997 9,485
1998 8,760
1999 8,525
2000 (1)
1To be determined.

















TABLE 18


DATES USDA ASSUMED INTRASTATE INSPECTION
State: Meat Poultry
Arkansas 06/01/81 01/02/71
California 04/01/76 04/01/76
Colorado 07/01/75 01/02/71
Connecticut 10/01/75 10/01/75
Florida 12/02/97 12/02/97
Georgia 01/02/71
Hawaii 11/01/95 11/01/95
Idaho 07/01/81 01/02/71
Kentucky 01/14/72 07/28/71
Maine 05/12/80 01/02/71
Maryland 04/01/91 04/01/91
Massachusetts 01/12/76 01/12/76
Michigan 10/03/71 01/02/71
Minnesota 05/16/71 01/02/71
Missouri 08/18/72 08/18/72
Nebraska 10/01/71 07/28/71
Nevada 07/01/73 07/01/73
New Hampshire 08/07/78 08/07/78
New Jersey 07/01/75 07/01/75
New York 07/16/75 04/11/77
North Dakota 06/22/70 01/02/71
Oregon 07/01/72 01/02/71
Pennsylvania 07/17/72 10/31/71
Rhode Island 10/01/81 10/01/81
South Dakota 01/02/71
Tennessee 10/01/75 10/01/75
Washington 06/01/73 06/01/73


















TABLE 19


GRANTS TO STATES PROGRAM
[In thousands of dollars]
State 1997 1998 1999
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Montana
New Mexico
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Total

1The Florida inspection program converted from State to Federal Inspection on December 1, 1997.