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Mike Johanns

"The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification."

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"The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification."

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"The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive."
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"The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit."
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"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."
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"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."
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"In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today."
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"In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA."
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"People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer."
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"There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders."
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"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."
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"We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that."
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