Frozen Food Locker and Freezer Provisioning Plants in the United States, Twenty-Fourth Annual Count, January 1961

Excerpts from the report: An estimated 10,365 frozen food locker and freezer provisioning plants were operating in the United States in January 1961. This was 490 more plants than were operating a year earlier. Indications are that between 85 and 90 percent of all plants provide locker rental service in addition to processing and merchandising services. The remaining plants have no lockers but specialize in processing and merchandising frozen foods, principally to homefreezer owners. The increase in total number of plants is due largely to the increasing number of these homefreezer provisioning plants. Many States have amended, or are considering amending, their "frozen food locker" laws to include under these laws those plants not renting lockers but engaged in the freezer provisioning business. Generally these plants are required to obtain licenses and conform to standards established for frozen food locker plants, such as standards of sanitation, and requirements regulating labeling, processing equipment, and facilities.