We just want to assure people of the safety of the food supply.

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First of all, we don't have it in the U.S. and we're doing everything to keep it out, ... If we have an outbreak, we could contain it. If we had to kill 5 million birds to eradicate it, that's still a very small number of our total annual production.

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It only comes from actually handling a live, infected chicken. We don't have any of those in the U.S.A. and only a small number of people in Asia have contacted it. The danger, right now, is essentially zero in the United States and it's even pretty slim in Asia.

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We understand the concerns that some people have, but the simple fact is we don't have any problem with the H5N1 form [of the disease] here in the U.S.,

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But we're not waiting for signs to show up.

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Even if we did have an outbreak, which is unlikely, it's going to be very limited. And the number of birds involved will be very small.

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There's nothing more that consumers should be doing that they aren't doing already.

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The health of the flock, ... is probably the best that it's ever been.

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This is the first program to cover the commercial industry as comprehensively as we are doing. We are gratified that 90 percent of the producers have signed up for the program, and more will come in as we go along.

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