21.   The British government maintained that beef products were safe.

22.   The Commission rejected advice from the World Health Organization that U.K. beef products such as gelatine and tallow did not put users at risk for the disease.

23.   The European Union last week banned exports of British beef and beef products for at least six weeks.

24.   The meat industry has long sought approval of irradiation for ground beef, which is the source of the greatest contamination in beef products.

25.   The new beef marketing program will allow the industry to better track beef products from the ranch through the slaughterhouse and to the supermarket, the NCBA said.

26.   The next project the group has planned is marketing low-fat beef products from its herds on the natural-grass rangelands, McDonald said.

27.   The producer of fresh and boxed beef products said yesterday it expects a strong fourth quarter on low costs for cattle and pork.

28.   The spread of mad-cow disease in Britain has been widely attributed to the practice of feeding animals meal containing beef products.

29.   U.S. Trade Rep. Mickey Kantor said today the U.S. will pursue WTO dispute settlement proceedings against the European Union over its ban on imports of American beef products.

30.   Within days, sales of beef products were dropping.