1.   The US Public Health Service conducts periodic sanitary inspections on all cruise ships calling on American ports.

2.   Department spokesman Ignacio Lara said Mexico has no sanitary inspection for exported fruit and other commodities.

3.   The Department of Agriculture does not conduct health or sanitary inspections of Mexican strawberries, Gonzalez said.

4.   The ground turkey, which a private Russian company had bought in Belgium to use for sausages, has been confiscated pending a sanitary inspection, NTV said.