1.  Unlike the United States, with its long accepted federal monitoring over agriculture and food safety, there is no central food protection agency in Europe.

2.  It said all central food markets, barring those in the northern Bilbao and Santander, were fully supplied.

3.  The central food court was ringed by video game machines, Baskin and Robins ice cream, a photo shop and a jewelry store.

4.  Yatskov said the three Chechens were arrested on Saturday while secretly surveying the area around a central food market and apparently planning to plant a bomb there.