31.   The Agriculture Department agreed Wednesday to tighten testing requirements for corn bound for Japan to prevent shipments of grain contaminated with a biotech variety not approved for food use.

32.   The administration has also felt pressure in recent days from members of Congress to ease off on its automobile testing requirements.

33.   The Bush administration backed away from a proposal to ease salmonella testing requirements on meat for school lunches, saying it was overruling lower level Agriculture Department officials.

34.   The effort to strip out the testing requirement was a bipartisan effort mounted by conservatives and liberals.

35.   The House left the measure in the bill but egg producers are negotiating with the agency to alter its proposed testing requirements.

36.   This month Clinton ordered new testing requirements for listeria, a pathogen in processed meats.