Suitability of bovine portion condemnations at provincially-inspected abattoirs in Ontario Canada for food animal syndromic surveillance

Table 2 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	30	40	38
287-498	43	35	40	28	36	34	26
499-841	24	24	36	40	40	32	35
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	56	45	48	45	30	39	29
50-51	18	28	25	31	41	31	32
52	22	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	15	22	28
A	61	71	77	76	78	78	72
B	14	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	¹Median 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

¹Median sales-price in Canadian dollars per 100 lbs.
Summary of the a) quartiles of the 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, steers 2001–2007 for portion condemnations.

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