11.   Following the discovery of cancer-causing dioxin in some Belgian foods, Bulgaria has banned meat imports from Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands.

12.   Foot-and-mouth is harmless to humans and does not normally kill animals, but it devastates trade because many countries ban meat imports from infected nations.

13.   France especially insisted that the ban should also apply to meat imports of animals which have used the same antibiotics.

14.   Holyhead is a flash point for demonstrations against meat imports.

15.   Instead, the United States, along with Canada, Mexico and other countries, have banned meat imports from Uruguay.

16.   Japan is scrambling to reassure consumers and reopen beef export markets including the United States, which quickly barred Japanese meat imports after the announcement.

17.   Most Chinese meat imports come from the U.S., Brazil and Australia.

18.   No figures were available on South Korean meat imports to Russia.

19.   On Wednesday, Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., proposed to ban all meat imports.

20.   Saudi Arabia has banned meat imports from Iran, Taiwan, India, Turkey and Lebanon out of fear of the disease.