11.   Critics worry that if irradiation becomes a major factor the meat industry will not bother to clean up.

12.   Even the meat industry has become more tempered in its dining advice, suggesting that Americans choose lean, well-trimmed meats and four-ounce portions.

13.   Farmers would be ruined, the meat industry would be hurt because of a lack of animal feed, and the price of groceries would rise.

14.   Glickman, meat industry representatives said, was merely grandstanding, performing more like a congressman than a sober administrator and regulator.

15.   In that year, the government banned the use of sheep organs, cattle brains and other animal parts in the meat processing industry.

16.   Instead, the lawmakers substituted a directive that meat inspection rules be negotiated between the meat industry, consumers, labor unions, scientists, and the government.

17.   It banned the use of sheep organs, cattle brains and other animal parts in the meat processing industry.

18.   Irradiation, designed to kill bacteria in food and increase its shelf life, has been an issue between consumer advocacy groups and the meat industry.

19.   Keith Collins, chief economist for the secretary of agriculture, has been using those figures to estimate what an outbreak would cost the U.S. meat industry.

20.   Meissner said the meat packing industry historically has attracted undocumented workers.