A comparison between the plants of some vital South African industries such as Sugar Industry, the Iron and Steel Industry, the Chemical, Pulp and Paper Industries as well as Power Stations will single out the South African Sugar Factories for one very noticeable item: The absence of supervising and controlling instruments for the manufacturing process and for a number of ancillary processes.' ...

Research and Marketing Act funds have been allotted to the Western Regional Research Laboratory for work on the technology of sugar beets. Liaison between the Laboratory and industry has been established through the Committee on processing problems, appointed by the industry. This committe has met at the Laboratory to discuss subjects meriting investigation and has proposed four problems: (1) s...

A patient with occupational asthma in the beet sugar processing industry is described. Symptomatology, skin testing, immunologic testing, and specific bronchoprovocation testing indicate exposure to moldy sugar beet pulp was the cause of the patient's occupational asthma. Cooperation between the treating physician and public health authorities is encouraged.

Certain wastewaters from the nonalcoholic sugar-sweetened beverage industry, particularly those discarded because of deficient bottling processes or those returned from the market because of quality constraints, exhibit chemical oxygen demand (COD) levels as high as 135000 mg of O2/L because of their sugar content: 60−119 g/L, depending on the beverage. Thus, treating such wastewaters before di...

Workers in developing countries face as many, if not more, work-related health problems as their counterparts in industrialized nations. This paper concentrates on occupational health problems in the sugar industry, which exists in 40 countries, mostly in the Third World. Sugar cane workers have a high level of occupational accidents and are exposed to the high toxicity of pesticides. They may ...