Central to the E. coli O157:H7 model's success was a collective acknowledgement by industry that this food safety hazard needed to be addressed in all their food safety systems.

I voted against that bill because it didn't make sense to create a new tax while the state is growing and has an $8 billion surplus.

With the price of chicken, I don't know how you could send it across the ocean twice and make money.

It's a little bit more dangerous, obviously, when you have large gatherings and food laid out like this. We tend to feast and nibble and snack all afternoon.

It's a wonderful time to educate everybody out there that there's lots of reasons to handle poultry properly and cook it to the right temperature.

I think we are all very aware that it certainly could happen through the migratory bird patterns that fly up from the Russian peninsula over to the Alaskan peninsula and fly down that Western coast.

It will have been processed. Cooking will kill the virus, if there is any virus, in poultry meat.

I think the firewalls are in place to keep that virus from getting into this country other than the migratory flyways.

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