The Cost of Food Safety Technologies in the Meat and Poultry Industries.

Table 3a: Selected means of variables in the cost function models of the meat and poultry
industries: Dataset includes the technology index.¹

Variable	-----------------------------Industry-----------------------
	Meat Slaughter	Meat Processing	Poultry Slaughter
Sanitation and Process Control Performance______	0.966	0.984	0.931
Technology Index Value____________	0.581	0.561	0.619
Wages ($1000s/year)_____	32.12	37.31	24.79
Price of Capital _($)_________________	0.368	0.375	0.374
Price of Meat Inputs ($/lb.)_______	0.788	1.104	0.364
Total Costs ($1000)__________	24, 872	2,983	10,599
Total Pounds of Output (1000 lbs.)	37,256	2,592	19,704
Labor Cost Share	0.118	0.205	0.207
Meat Cost Share	0.796	0.642	0.686
Capital Cost Share	0.086	0.153	0.107

Observations______	97	219	57

1. Observations without a technology index value were dropped, eliminating some observations.