1.   Dairy processors, meat processors and animal feed producers all fell.

2.   Milk and other dairy processors, feed producers, abattoirs, beef producers and feed manufacturers would all be hit.

3.   Shares in meat processors, animal feed producers and dairy producers have fallen.

4.   Sources in the industry said some feed producers mixed imported MBM with domestic MBM to increase the volume or adjust ratios of ingredients.

5.   American investors such as animal feed producer Cargill Inc. and Film animation firm Worldwide Satellite Broadcast contributed the bulk of investments.

6.   Apart from poultry farmers, the feed producer also was involved in the pork sector, raising fears the contamination may have spread there too.

7.   Earlier this month, the Belgian government declared it had traced the dioxin contamination to the animal feed fat producer Verkest.

8.   Feed producers had faced the prospect of storing mountains of unwanted feed with domestic use and exports to France and Germany no longer possible.

9.   Hundreds of animal feed producers have violated regulations meant to keep mad cow disease out of the country, says a new Food and Drug Administration report.

10.   In Belgium, two managers of the animal feed fat producer where the contamination is expected to have originated remained under arrest on charges of fraud.