Stocks of Frozen and Chilled Meats

June 2005

Highlights

Total frozen and chilled red meat in cold storage at the opening of the first business day of June 2005 amounted to 91 210 metric tonnes, down 4% from 95 104 tonnes in May and up 17% from 78 094 tonnes in June 2004. Stocks of frozen poultry meat in cold storage on June 1^st totalled 65 977 metric tonnes, up 25% from a year ago. The graph below depicts the monthly stocks of all frozen and chilled red meat from January 1990 to June 2005.

 Monthly stocks of frozen and chilled meats, Canada

Methodology

This bulletin presents data on stocks of frozen and chilled meats at the wholesale level obtained from a monthly census of known cold storage establishments registered with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency . Included are such facilities as meat packers, wholesale butchers, abattoirs, and central warehouses of large retail grocery stores. Data not received in time for publication for the current month are estimated through imputation until such time as actual data are available. Therefore, current month data are preliminary and subject to revision.

For more details on concepts and methodology, please contact Client Services, Agriculture Division, Statistics Canada, at 1-800-465-1991 or by email: agriculture@statcan.gc.ca.

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