The hormone, MPA, could have been in glucose syrup sold by the bankrupt sugar waste processor Bioland, based in Belgium.

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Such branches can cause a processor to waste valuable time dealing with the ancillary book-keeping that comes with every branch.

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The time-share operator would queue up an assortment of customers so that not a second of processor time went to waste.

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