Dan Glickman Safety Quotations

Hudson will recall all product that originated at the Columbus, Neb., plant, destroy all product they have on hand at that plant and immediately cease operations there, until they've adopted far more stringent safety standards that we have specifically laid out for them based on what we have found in our investigation,

While there is no single silver bullet to cure all food safety problems, irradiation has been shown to be both safe and effective, ... USDA is committed to approving new technologies that offer industry additional tools to help produce even safer food.

We've got to do a better job of segregating those commodities to make sure that ... we basically protect people from things that haven't been approved, ... The FDA is monitoring the situation very closely, very carefully. I don't think there is any public health and safety issue here, but the fact is the product has not been approved for human consumption. It should not be served.

The organic classification is not a judgment about the quality or safety of any product. Organic is about how it is produced. It is a process issue,

They are still there pouring over records and interviewing people, looking into both the plants food safety procedures and the degree to which Hudson's has been forthcoming in providing timely and accurate information to the USDA,