Appendix 6 Egg Survey Materials

Appendix 6

Other Survey Materials

Pre-notice Letter: Egg Products Plants

[FSIS letterhead]

Month Day, Year

Plant Manager/Owner Name

Plant Name

Street Address

City, State Zip

Dear (Plant Manager/Owner Name):

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is conducting a survey, and we are asking for your help.

The purpose of the survey is to add to our understanding of the current processing practices and technologies used in the egg products industries to control pathogens and promote food safety. The enclosed brochure provides additional information on the survey. You may recall receiving a similar survey a few years ago. This survey contains similar questions that will be used to assess food safety and technology adoption trends over time.

All egg products plants were selected to participate in the survey. Without your response, the survey results will not properly reflect industry practices. Therefore, your help is crucial. I am requesting that you—or someone that you designate at your plant—complete the survey.

FSIS has contracted with RTI International to develop and conduct this nationwide survey. A representative from RTI will call you soon to identify the person at your plant who should complete the survey. RTI will then send this individual the survey to complete (the survey is not enclosed).

As RTI International has done with other surveys it has conducted for Federal agencies, they will report unidentified individual responses of this survey to FSIS. They will perform data masking techniques so that individual plants cannot be identified. The results of the survey will be reported to the public only in summary form so that individual responses or respondents cannot be identified. Those who respond to the survey will receive a summary report of the survey results.

If you have questions about the survey, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Harry Marks with FSIS at (202) 690-1081 or at Harry.Marks@fsis.usda.gov.

FSIS appreciates your help in this important endeavor.

Sincerely,

Administrator

Enclosure

Reminder Postcard: Egg Products Plants

(Date)

Dear [Respondent Name]:

Recently, you received a survey on current practices and technologies used in the egg products industry for controlling pathogens. RTI International is conducting this survey for FSIS. If you have already returned the survey, we would like to thank you. Your assistance is very much appreciated.

If you have not yet returned the survey, please complete the survey and mail it back to us within the next week. The information that you provide will help ensure that FSIS develops regulations that are science based and efficient and that minimize the potential economic burden on plants such as yours.

If you have any questions, please contact me toll-free at 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx or SurveyFSIS@rti.org. Thank you again.

Sincerely,

[signature]

RTI International

Reminder E-mail: Egg Products Plants

Recently, you received a survey by e-mail on current practices and technologies used in the egg products industry for controlling pathogens. RTI International is conducting this survey for FSIS. If you have already completed the survey, we would like to thank you. Your assistance is very much appreciated.

If you have not yet completed the survey, we ask that you do so within the next week. The information that you provide will help ensure that FSIS develops regulations that are science based and efficient and that minimize the potential economic burden on plants such as yours. The log-on information for the survey is provided at the end of this e-mail.

If you have any questions, please contact me toll-free at 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx or SurveyFSIS@rti.org. Thank you again.

[Insert log-on information]

Sincerely,

RTI International