1.   And also like cattle, they can eat commercial feed.

2.   Agriculture officials say the Belgian sheep could have caught the disease by eating contaminated feed while they were still in Belgium.

3.   All had eaten animal feed containing British beef for many years.

4.   Scientists contend that cattle in Britain were infected after eating feed that contained parts of other infected cows.

5.   Scientists believe the so-called mad cow disease results when cattle eat feed made from the brains or spinal cords of sheep suffering from scrapie.

6.   The Faillaces produced records that they said showed that neither flock had eaten tainted feed in Europe.

7.   The United States has had no cases of mad cow disease, which scientists believe is contracted by cattle eating feed made of contaminated sheep and cattle body parts.

8.   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today told producers not to distribute catfish and egg products made from animals that may have eaten contaminated feed.

9.   When they eat BSE-contaminated feed, they develop a disease clinically similar to the sheep disease scrapie.

10.   A feed lot has quarantined the cattle while FDA investigators determine if any did eat banned feed, Bachorik said.