1.   As Alger stood outside his complex of packing houses, a Mexican farm worker walked up with her two children, looking for work.

2.   Commercial fruits and vegetables are washed at the packing house.

3.   Citrus packing houses have been segregated so that oranges, lemons and grapefruit bound for export are not mixed with fruit grown in the quarantine area.

4.   Competition among poultry plant managers was blamed for several schemes in which birds were underweighed or undercounted at the packing house, costing growers millions.

5.   For the tests, environmental scientists review fields and packing houses according to volunteer federal guidelines and standard food safety practices.

6.   In addition the Cohns have opened a retail stand in front of their packing house.

7.   In her first attempt, Harrison made soap from tallow, which she rendered from suet she bought from a packing house.

8.   In the future, Martin and others expect growers to show real-time images from packing houses on their Web sites as an antidote to static images of fruit.

9.   It got so hot in the packing house, with stifling air pushed around by four fans, the workers sagged with fatigue.

10.   Meanwhile, across the state in Immokalee, near Fort Myers, a large packing house shut down, throwing hundreds of workers out of jobs.