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Industry

Medical Definition:	The aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principle product, as "the automobile industry", "the steel industry". It includes the ownership and management of companies, factories, industrial plants, etc. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
Guide Notes:	SPEC: SPEC qualif; relation to INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE see OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE & OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES: Manual 31.2, 31.14; DF: INDUST
Also Called:	Industrialization,Tertiary Sector

Industry Categories.

	Barbering - The occupation concerned with the cutting and dressing of the hair of customers and, of men, the shaving and trimming of the beard and mustache. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
	Beauty Culture
	Book Industry - The aggregate enterprise of manufacturing and technically producing books. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
	Chemical Industry - The aggregate enterprise of manufacturing and technically producing chemicals. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
	Drug Industry - That segment of commercial enterprise devoted to the design, development, and manufacture of chemical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, disability, or other dysfunction, or to improve function.
	Extraction and Processing Industry - The industry concerned with the removal of raw materials from the Earth's crust and with their conversion into refined products.
	Food Industry - The industry concerned with processing, preparing, preserving, distributing, and serving of foods and beverages.
	Forestry - The science of developing, caring for, or cultivating forests.
	Health Care Sector - Economic sector concerned with the provision, distribution, and consumption of health care services and related products.
	Laundering
	Product Packaging - Form in which product is processed or wrapped and labeled. (From POPLINE Thesaurus, 1991) PRODUCT LABELING is also available.
	Tanning - A process of preserving animal hides by chemical treatment (using vegetable tannins, metallic sulfates, and sulfurized phenol compounds, or syntans) to make them immune to bacterial attack, and subsequent treatments with fats and greases to make them pliable. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)
	Textile Industry - The aggregate business enterprise of manufacturing textiles. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
	Tobacco Industry - The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products.

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