1.  The agency would be financed by the combined budgets of the existing food inspection programs.

2.  Existing food subsidies also will be doubled, Caldera said.

3.  The proposal may meet some resistance from Republicans, who last year tried to weaken existing food safety regulations, claiming they put too great a burden on industry.

4.  Earlier this week, United Nations officials in Geneva said existing food supplies could last only a week in Albania.

5.  Sources said the compromise deal would require information on labels in cases where a novel food or food ingredient was no longer equivalent to an existing food.

6.  With larger bears claiming the existing food, smaller and younger bears are invading urban areas by following rivers and streams.

7.  He said the United States reserves the option of providing additional aid to ease hunger in the reclusive country, where flooding last year worsened existing food shortages.