Federal and state legislators recently enacted policies to fund new renovated small local meat processors expansion with the aim of increasing meat-processing sector's resiliency. Wages must be competitive attract employees for these plants competitive. No previous studies have examined what has happened employee labor costs at United States (US) since early 2000s. This study estimates how firm...

Potential toxic metal (PTE) accumulation in soil and water is one of the major sources food crop contamination. PTE remediation from can be enhanced by addition organic matter to growing media. An experiment was carried out investigate effect different amendments on PTEs pea plant grown mine degraded soils. Mining soils chromite (CM), soap stone (SSM), manganese (MM), quartz (QM) were mixed wit...

Archaean komatiites of the greenstone belt in Manica area, western Mozambique contains accessory amount of disseminated chromite grains. The komatiite rocks comprise peridotitic and basaltic komtiite. These komatiites are affected by regional metamorphism as all of the studied area. It is observed that only chromian spinel is preserved as the primary mineral and that all the other primary miner...

BACKGROUND Although stainless steel has been produced for more than a hundred years, exposure-related mortality data for production workers are limited. AIMS To describe cause-specific mortality in Finnish ferrochromium and stainless steel workers. METHODS We studied Finnish stainless steel production chain workers employed between 1967 and 2004, from chromite mining to cold rolling of stai...