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Seroprevalence of spotted fever rickettsiosis and ehrlichiosis among food processing workers and their families in Latino communities in North Carolina. [PDF]

open access: yesPLOS Global Public Health
Workers in food processing industries are subject to many occupational health risks and disparities, but little is known about their risk of tickborne diseases.
Melissa K Cutshaw   +11 more
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Meat- Packing Industry [PDF]

open access: greenThe ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1919
ON July 1, 1917, there became available, by act of Congress, an appropriation of $250,000 to the Federal Trade Commission and another of $50,000 to the Department of Agriculture to be devoted to a study of the advancing costs of foodstuffs and especially to an inquiry as to whether there was reason to believe that the production, preparation, storage ...
William B. Colver
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Cost Economies and Market Power: The Case of the U.S. Meat Packing Industry [PDF]

open access: greenReview of Economics and Statistics, 2001
Increasing size of establishments and resulting concentration in U.S. industries may stem from various types of cost economies. In particular, scale economies arising from technological factors embodied in plant and equipment may be a driving force for such market structure changes. In this case, typical market power measures like Lerner indices can be
Catherine Paul
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ASSESSMENT OF INDUSTRY COMPETITIVE POSITION (ON EXAMPLE OF THE KEMEROVO MEAT-PACKING PLANT) [PDF]

open access: greenТехника и технология пищевых производств, 2016
The article presents assessments of industry competitive position using the example of the food industry. For these purposes, the concept of "branch" has been disclosed, which is given as a group of companies in the study area.
Lavrov A.M., Polikarpova L.A.
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TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND BUSINESS STRUCTURE IN THE AMERICAN MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY

open access: diamondKeiei Shigaku (Japan Business History Review), 1984
The modern business enterprise resulted from the integration of mass production with mass distribution within a single business firm. The American meat-packing industry created the typical type of enterprise exemplified by the “Big Five” at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the dominant status of the “Big Five” has ceased today.
Haruhito Shiomi
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Location pattern of the meat packing industry, 1950-1965

open access: gold, 1968
"Objectives of the Study: The objective of this study was to make a case study of locational influences in meat packing in recent years, and thereby both to learn something about the location economics of that industry and to contribute to a more generalized understanding of industrial location forces in the modern setting.
Raymond J. Folwell
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Controlling Avoidance of Food Safety Regulations in Meat Packing Industry

open access: hybridOpen Journal of Political Science, 2013
The sale of meat and poultry contains asymmetric information dealing with food safety. Since pathogens in most cases are invisible, consumers lack information on the safety of meat and poultry. Government interaction through the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in the meat and poultry industry is necessary to regulate the safety of meat and ...
Dragan Miljkovic, Dane Braun
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Stock Price Reaction to Regulation in the Meat Packing Industry

open access: green, 1994
The results of this study suggest that a variety of regulations in the meat packing industry had significant, and sometimes unexpected, effects. The specific results of regulatory event testing show that many regulatory changes produce large significant impacts on the meat processing industry, in this study shown to be as large as 4% of shareholder ...
Johnson, Mark S.   +2 more
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