Factors associated with whole carcass condemnation rates in provincially-inspected abattoirs in Ontario 2001-2007: implications for food animal syndromic surveillance

Table 3 Summary of number of cattle processed, number weeks open, audit rating and animal class

a) Number of animals processed	Number of Abattoirs
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
1 - 286	73	72	36	24	29	40	38
287 - 498	42	35	40	28	34	34	25
499 - 841	25	24	36	40	43	32	36
842 - 27 286	22	26	33	49	41	32	30
b) Number of weeks open	Number of Abattoirs
1 - 43	66	67	44	32	43	38	38
44 - 49	58	46	48	45	30	39	29
50 - 51	17	27	25	31	41	31	32
52	21	17	28	33	33	30	30
c) Audit Rating	Number of Abattoirs
AAA	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
AA	6	6	7	13	16	23	28
A	61	72	79	78	78	78	72
B	15	8	8	5	8	6	9
C	2	1	0	0	1	0	0
Unrated	78	71	53	47	45	31	19
d) Animal Class	Median sales-price of animal class per year 2001-2007
Calves	136.53	117.95	112.19	83.61	107.14	119.69	108.49
Cows	64.28	58.64	27.11	19.70	25.38	31.84	34.77
Heifers	112.01	101.22	82.16	73.61	87.74	90.87	91.09
Steers	113.24	102.57	83.15	75.60	91.07	93.55	92.56

Summary of the a) quartiles of the total number of cattle processed, b) quartiles of the number of weeks at least one bovine animal was processed, c) annual OMAFRA audit rating, and d) median sales price of calves, cows, heifers and steers 2001-2007.

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