1.   The legislators approved a new levy on imported cattle to help protect American ranchers.

2.   In six of those countries, including Canada, the disease did not spread from imported cattle to ones already living in the countries.

3.   He said two Cuban experts are in Jamaica to help veterinarians with the buffaloes while they are quarantined for two weeks, a standard procedure for imported cattle.

4.   He welcomed an announcement by the Brazilian government that it would try to buy all the imported European cattle to place them under government control.

5.   Imported live cattle must be placed under observation to ensure they are free from diseases.

6.   The agriculture ministry has said its animal quarantine system would prevent the spread of any new diseases from imported cattle.

7.   The disease was first confirmed in the region earlier this month and has spread quickly among imported cattle, a ministry official said.

8.   The disease was first confirmed in Saudi Arabia earlier this month and has spread quickly among imported cattle, a ministry official said.

9.   The imported cattle can only come from farms that have had no case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or mad cow disease in the last six months.

10.   But he conceded that some French importers had doubtless illegally imported British cattle feed meal based on animal proteins.