1.   An EU scientific panel last December concluded U.S. beef poses no threat to human health.

2.   A scientific conference organized by Fischler last fall concluded hormone-treated beef posed no threat to human health.

3.   Ground beef poses a special hazard because the grinding process spreads the contamination throughout the product.

4.   British beef no longer poses a risk to health because of controls imposed to eradicate mad cow disease, a senior agriculture official said Friday.

5.   The EU executive Commission said the panel had ignored scientific evidence put forward by the Europeans to show that eating hormone-treated beef poses a health risk.