Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers, and to make sure that they are in compliance with all federal laws.

Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that’s a real success story for us.