Monitoring our performance
Animal welfare expert Dr. Temple Grandin helped develop our audit program and oversees our auditor training to ensure that our suppliers keep up with improvements in animal handling practices. Under our program, every beef, pork, and poultry processing plant that serves the McDonald’s supply chain is required to be audited annually by independent firms or McDonald’s staff. We also continue to train McDonald’s staff, suppliers, and auditors to ensure that we are incorporating the best advances in animal welfare standards into our audit system.
| Global Data | Beef | Poultry | Pork |
| Abattoirs approved for use by the McDonald's supply chain | 313 | 130 | 70 |
| % approved abattoirs that were audited for animal welfare in 2007 | 100% | 97% | 99% |
| % abattoirs that passed an audit in 2007 | 99% | 99% | 99% |
Our goal is for all abattoirs approved for use in our supply chain to pass an audit each year. Audits that did not occur in 2007 are scheduled to be completed in 2008. We are working with those four facilities that did not pass audits in 2007 to address specific problems, and they will be audited again to ensure improvements were made.
If any facility fails to make necessary improvements as agreed, it is removed from our approved abattoir list.