1.  Despite the lack of physical evidence in the poisoning case, prosecutors said, Trepal had motive, opportunity and know-how.

2.  Shellfish poisoning cases are on the rise from coastal New England to the Carolinas to the Gulf of Mexico.

3.  Convulsions and heart attacks might occur in serious poisoning cases, Mohamed Isa added.

4.  Grabb said a three-year statute of limitations prevented the military from charging anyone in the poisoning case.

5.  He also criticised the Department of Health for doing very little to find out the origin of the problem after the first poisoning cases were reported.

6.  He said an increasing number of poisoning cases had made it necessary for the council and government departments to adopt contingency measures.

7.  He said only a dozen lots distributed solely in Belgium were involved in the Belgian poisoning cases.

8.  It was about two months later that a mysterious sarin poisoning case killed seven people in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan.

9.  It did not say how serious the poisoning cases were.

10.  Japan has been shaken by a series of poisoning cases.