41.   Agriculture Minister Husnu Yusuf Gokalp, who said there were no cases of mad cow disease in Turkey, said the ban would protect the country.

42.   Agriculture Minister Karl-Heinz Funke said Germany might introduce compulsory testing of sheep to see if they have the equivalent of mad cow disease.

43.   British scientists announced last week there was evidence for only a tentative link between mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

44.   Both times, doctors suspected Creutzfelt-Jakob disease, a neurological disorder that resembles mad cow disease.

45.   BSE, known popularly as mad cow disease, converts in humans into a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

46.   But concern has increased after reports that the agent that causes mad cow disease has jumped to cause death among a small number of people in Britain.

47.   But much more needs to be done to ensure that mad cow disease does not arise in this country, Sundlof said.

48.   But now, he said, the policy is ill advised, particularly since there is no documented case of mad cow disease being spread through blood transfusions.

49.   But now, more than two weeks after the Canadian government banned Brazilian beef because it was concerned about mad cow disease, tempers are escalating.

50.   But some experts have suggested that the prions, or infectious agents, that cause mad cow might be transmitted in milk.