1.   Just a flask of culture can produce pounds of anthrax bacteria in four days.

2.   Pentagon officials said the project demonstrated the ease with which a terrorist or rogue nation could build a plant that could produce pounds of deadly germs.

3.   Supplies of refined copper will probably rise this year as the average cost of producing a pound of copper falls.

4.   Three pounds of pellets made from sprats, sand eels, anchovies and pilchards are needed to produce each pound of farmed salmon.

5.   While often of better quality, shaded coffee produces fewer pounds of beans per tree than that grown under full sun in places like Brazil or Vietnam.

6.   It quoted Defense officials as saying the project demonstrated the ease with which a terrorist or rogue nation could build a plant that could produce pounds of deadly germs.