1.   Animal remains were often placed in burial sites.

2.   Bill Huffman operates the largest private museum of animal remains in the country.

3.   For now, the United States and Britain have banned the feeding of most animal remains to cows and sheep and investigation continues.

4.   The rest is a history of steel parts, boat parts and animal remains, including a sea bass head in a cage -- downwind of the driver.

5.   Britain has pledged to destroy cattle most at risk for the disease, improve health standards for slaughterhouses and ban use of ground animal remains in cattle feed.

6.   But it has not been shown that the animal remains were the source of the polluted water.

7.   Farmers often added animal remains as an enhancer in feed for cattle and other livestock.

8.   It has also said that Portugal was not enforcing EU rules on the treatment of bovine animal remains used in feed for pigs and poultry.

9.   Luitpold Braun, a local official, said Thursday that the farmer insisted he had never given his herd feed made from ground-up animal remains.

10.   The alleged violations relate to EU rules on the processing of animal remains, notably meat and bone meal, the official said.