The source of contamination - an 80, 000-kg batch of fat that a Belgium company sold to feed mills supplying European farms - did not only contain dioxin.

CNN: THE GREAT DIOXIN SCARE

After capturing their home market, the Lius expanded nationally by buying up moribund state feed mills -- Hope has acquired some 25 to date -- and streamlining operations, largely through management shake-ups and layoffs of up to 50% of staff.

CNN: Hope Takes On the World

The first is that their improving lot has not gone unnoticed by those who sell the raw materials that feed the world's steel mills.

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