Ron DeHaven Quotes (16 Quotes)

The investigation today is focusing on tracing the other 73 animals that presumably came into the United States in the same shipment with this positive cow,

I would hesitate to speculate on how long that would take, because I just don't know how much follow-up and additional information might be generated when we take a look at it.

If the virus does arrive in the U.S., we think we'll find it quickly. We don't think that it would ever make it into the food chain.

We have worked hard...to develop a viable plan that will enable Florida to produce, harvest, process, and ship healthy citrus in the presence of citrus canker.

After 5 years old, it is an approximation, but a fairly good approximation, in terms of looking at the amount of wear on the teeth, are there teeth missing, that kind of thing.

Certainly ... 40,000 (per year) would appear to be in the ballpark, but again we've not arrived at that number.

Was the animal was born before or after the feed ban, that's the main issue for us.

We'll want to know what feed that animal had been fed, and even more importantly what other animals were on the farm at that same time that might have consumed the same feed and where are they now.

We have the appropriate safeguards in place - overlapping, redundant safeguards - to protect public health and animal health.

The birth herd is the likely location where the animal became infected,

We'll have a number of people who are familiar with aging cattle by their dentition look at this animal and see if they concur with the original veterinarian.

We haven't done all that we can do to help affected countries attack the virus in birds.

It would be our hope we will have a rule in place in six to eight months' time,

There's been a lot of debate about the role that migratory birds are or might play in spreading the disease.

We hope that it doesn't come here. But our planning is on the assumption that it will arrive here. And we need to be prepared.

There would be no indication at all that we have the virus in commercial poultry and therefore no substantive basis to impose trade restrictions on poultry and poultry products from the United States,