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2025 Meat Inspection
Mission Statement Protect public health and ensure consumer confidence in Illinois meat products by inspecting meat and poultry slaughter and processing operations.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Provide safe and high-quality meat products in Illinois by ensuring a regulatory-compliant meat and poultry slaughter and processing industry.
    1. Reduce the percentage of actionable findings.
    2. Increase the percentage of sites rated compliant.
  2. Provide comprehensive, consistent, and clear requirements, policies, and procedures.
    1. Provide professional, consistent, and fair inspections that follow the Department's policies and procedures.
      1. Provide a dispute resolution and appeals process that is efficient, consistent, and fair.
        Source of Funds General Revenue Fund, Wholesome Meat Fund Statutory Authority 225 ILCS 650 et seq.
        Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
        Input Indicators
        Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 18,006.0 $ 14,912.0 $ 16,947.0 $ 14,879.0 $ 12,128.0
        Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 18,006.0 $ 14,912.0 $ 16,947.0 $ 14,879.0 $ 12,128.0
        Average monthly full-time equivalents 107.0 103.0 104.0 98.0 108.0
        Output Indicators
        Number of enforcement actions taken (warning letters and hearings) 45.0 29.0 48.0 44.0 72.0
        Head inspected at slaughter 233,000 233,000 240,000 232,011 232,000
        Livestock inspected (millions of pounds) 44.0 44.1 48.0 43.6 49.0
        Number of inspected Plants 190.0 190.0 192.0 190.0 186.0
        Number of Inspected Brokers 726.0 726.0 700.0 714.0 614.0
        Number of planned/random compliance reviews 2,400 2,448 1,750 1,714 1,271
        Number of tasks/procedures performed 178,000 178,000 145,000 140,000 132,000
        Birds inspected at slaughter (a) 815,000 812,000 0.0 0.0 0.0
        Poultry inspected (millions of pounds) (a) 4.0 3.8 0.0 0.0 0.0
        Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness Indicators
        Average cost per livestock inspected (head) (in dollars) $ 63.00 $ 59.00 N/A N/A N/A
        Number of tasks/procedures performed per inspector 1,700 1,711 2,000 1,950 1,415
        Average total cost of inspections per plant during the fiscal year (in dollars) $ 77,204.00 $ 72,834.00 N/A N/A N/A
        Footnotes
        These amounts were previously included in the PAR output indicator “livestock inspected (head)” and “livestock inspected (millions of pounds)”, respectively. The amounts were broken out in fiscal year 2025 to provide better detail.

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