1.   Dalgety has been the U.K. food maker hardest hit by the mad cow crisis.

2.   Dalgety has been the U.K. foodmaker hardest hit by the mad cow crisis.

3.   It also sells chicken and fish, whose sales have also been bolstered by the mad cow crisis.

4.   Overshadowed by the mad cow crisis was the launch of the year-long conference to overhaul the European Union.

5.   A similar lack of information surrounding the mad cow crisis has caused consumers in many European countries, including Germany, Italy and Belgium, to stop eating beef.

6.   Americans who traveled frequently to Britain during the mad cow crisis have been banned from donating blood in the United States.

7.   Apart from the reform debate, the leaders will face a raft of issues, from a burgeoning mad cow crisis to a charter of fundamental rights for Europeans.

8.   As the mad cow crisis wears on, this is starting to become a publicity-grabbing tradition when European leaders come to town.

9.   Britain on Monday announced an independent inquiry into the mad cow disease crisis and the actions taken in response to it.

10.   But the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel stopped short of recommending a similar ban for all of Western Europe, which is experiencing a mad cow disease crisis.