I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.

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• Ann Veneman:

  We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making dec

• Ann Veneman:

  We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate ac

• Ann Veneman:

  I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food

• Ann Veneman:

  It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the

• Ann Veneman:

  I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were remo

• Ann Veneman:

  This was a dairy cow, and dairy cows have IDs on them. The ID was traced back to the farm in Washin

• Ann Veneman:

  Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Ca

• Ann Veneman:

  The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as

• Ann Veneman:

  But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know abou

• Ann Veneman:

  I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from t