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

Table 3b: Selected means of variable in the cost function models of the meat and poultry
industries: Full dataset, i.e does not include the technology index.

Variable	-----------------------------Industry-----------------------
	Meat Slaughter	Meat Processing	Poultry Slaughter and Processing
Sanitation and Process Control Performance______	0.969	0.985	0.931
Wages ($1000s/year)_____	31.74	35.67	24.18
Price of Capital _($)_________________	0.369	0.367	0.376
Price of Meat Inputs ($/lb.)_______	0.790	1.141	0.376
Total Costs ($1000)__________	243,918	29,533	97,725
Total Pounds of Output (1000 lbs.)	379,792	23,370	198,025
Labor Cost Share	0.120	0.209	0.209
Meat Cost Share	0.794	0.639	0.677
Capital Cost Share	0.086	0.152	0.114

Observations______	199	470	143

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