1.   The consumer scare forced growers to come up with ways to change their crop from a seasonal to a year-round food source.

2.   The latest news is bound to be another blow to the British beef industry, which is still reeling from a consumer scare from the earlier disclosures.

3.   EU farm ministers met in emergency session Monday to debate ways to calm the consumer scare over mad cow disease, including a mass slaughter of British cattle.

4.   European Union agriculture ministers are seeking a way out of the consumer scare over mad cow disease in Britain, possibly through a costly mass slaughter of British cattle.

5.   Last Friday, European leaders agreed to gradually lift the global ban on British beef exports imposed nearly three months ago following a consumer scare over bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

6.   The EU imposed a global ban on British exports to protect the beef market in other EU nations from being tainted by the consumer scare.

7.   The EU imposed a global ban on British exports to protect the beef market in other EU nations from a consumer scare.

8.   GMB said that the food processing, abattoir and road haulage industries had borne the brunt of the consumer scare.

9.   He said that the food processing, abattoir and road haulage industries had borne the brunt of the consumer scare.

10.   Their desire was to head off a potential consumer scare which drew ever closer in the wake of the findings of the Belfast coroners court.