My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

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.

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.