1.   A European Union report found France has failed to properly impose controls on cattle feed agreed to in the wake of the mad cow disease scare.

2.   Anxious consumers are shunning even home-grown beef as the mad cow disease scare spreads, forcing a huge reduction in the slaughter of cattle.

3.   Australia on Wednesday joined the United States and other nations in banning all imports of EU livestock, meat and dairy products, as livestock disease scares hit Europe.

4.   Britain has been blocking EU measures in protest of a worldwide ban on British beef following the mad cow disease scare.

5.   Corn finished up only marginally, weighed down by a gloomy outlook despite some relief at the evaporation of the cattle disease scare.

6.   France bans British beef imports over disease scare.

7.   Japan has largely averted the mad cow disease scare that curtailed beef consumption in other parts of the world.

8.   Switzerland is to protest to the World Trade Organization against European import restrictions on Swiss cattle following the mad cow disease scare.

9.   That ban was invoked as a result of the mad cow disease scare.

10.   The Agriculture Ministry announced Wednesday that all cattle imported from Britain and Switzerland will be slaughtered in an effort to stem a new mad cow disease scare.