1.   Selwyn Jones, who runs a nearby cockle processing plant, said he had expected a confrontation.

2.   BeefAmerica Operating Co. Inc. reopened its beef processing plant, saying it has corrected violations that led to its closing last Friday.

3.   Because milk freezes at a lower temperature than water, processing plants conduct freeze tests to guard against such fraud, Teakell said.

4.   Before taking up his newly created position, Belyakov, an agricultural engineer, had been the director of a poultry processing plant.

5.   A boom in seed processing plants, granaries and silos produced thousands more construction and service jobs.

6.   A large part of the profits, those defenders add, stem from record beef production levels, which keep processing plants operating near capacity.

7.   Building liquefied natural gas processing plants is costly, and commitments from buyers would be required to secure financing for that part of the project.

8.   Businesses such as farms, used car dealerships, real estate developments, factories and animal processing plants in which the companies promised to invest collapsed or never existed.

9.   Businesses that rely on cod and haddock to survive, such as fish processing plants, will also be hit hard.