31.   The federal budget squeeze has resulted in a shortage of food safety inspectors and in repeated failures to monitor meat and poultry processing plants on a daily basis.

32.   The EU has failed to certify U.S. meat and poultry processing plants as safe for export to EU member nations.

33.   The European Union has failed to certify U.S. meat and poultry processing plants as safe for export to EU member nations.

34.   The hub of Katanchel is the entirely civilized Casa de Maquinas, the former machine house where the henequen plants were processed.

35.   The U.S. Agriculture Department ordered BeefAmerica Operating Co. Inc. to shut its beef processing plant because of food-safety violations linked to the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria.

36.   Thousands of Latinos have chased jobs to Hall County, mainly in poultry processing plants.

37.   Universal Corp. said it agreed to buy tobacco leaf processing plants in Tanzania and Poland to expand its global reach.

38.   Yet another technology promises to lower infrastructure costs and operating expenses at natural gas processing plants by stripping liquids from natural gas more efficiently.

39.   Plastic and rubber processing plants showed the sharpest growth.

40.   A group of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency was scheduled to start inspecting the uranium processing plant on Wednesday and meet with government officials, Mamiya said.