11.   EU veterinary officials, who must approve the measures, will examine the proposal next week.

12.   In Brussels, a meeting of European Union veterinary officials may decide Monday to impose a blanket ban on British beef.

13.   It also found veterinary officials were often inadequately trained in detecting mad cow disease, which is formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE.

14.   It must be endorsed either by the veterinary officials or by E.U. agriculture ministers.

15.   Meanwhile, EU veterinary officials are meeting in Brussels to consider whether to maintain the ban on British beef.

16.   Nevertheless, Kiely said a committee of EU veterinary officials plans to examine the study at a meeting next month and had already requested more data from the authors.

17.   Russian veterinary officials have alleged that sanitary conditions in U.S. plants were poor and objected to the use of antibiotics and feed additives in U.S. chicken production.

18.   The ban had been expected since EU veterinary officials endorsed it in mid-May.

19.   The European Union is expected to ban the export of beef and cattle from Portugal next week after EU veterinary officials endorsed the move Friday.

20.   The dispute was essentially resolved during three months of talks between EU and U.S. veterinary officials.