1.   Cuba reserves its cattle feed and pasture for milk-producing dairy herds and still must import about half its dairy needs.

2.   In addition to food processing, the company is engaged in fertilizer manufacturing, cattle feeding, farming and turf products.

3.   Less grain means more expensive cattle feed.

4.   Those rules, in part, prohibit using beef parts to make cattle feed.

5.   The plan demands Britain slaughter more cattle judged at risk from the disease, set up an effective monitoring system for its herds and eliminate any suspect cattle feed.

6.   BSE originated in Britain, but spread abroad through exports of infected beef and cattle feed, scientists say.

7.   Cattle feed and other animal products from these countries would also be hit by the boycott, according to a statement by acting agriculture minister Nevzat Ercan.

8.   Cattle feed containing meat and bone meal from contaminated animals is seen as the main reason for the spread of the disease in Europe.

9.   The government suspects cattle feed containing meat and bone meal from contaminated animals is a possible source of the madcow infections in Japan.