Stocks of Frozen and Chilled Meats

April 2006

Highlights

Total frozen and chilled red meat in cold storage at the opening of the first business day of April 2006 amounted to 95 040 metric tonnes, down 2% from 96 773 tonnes in January 2006 and up 3% from 92 706 tonnes in April 2005.  Stocks of frozen poultry meat in cold storage on April 1^st 2006 totalled 64 204 metric tonnes, up 22% from a year ago. The graph below depicts the monthly stocks of all frozen and chilled red meat from January 1990 to April 2006.

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 quarterly 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 period are estimated through imputation until such time as actual data are available. Therefore, current quarterly data are preliminary and subject to revision.

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