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Update Day Two
1. U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Mike
Johanns
Remarks 33:00
NIAA Johanns Remarks
(NIAA
Johanns.jpg)
Secretary
Johanns addresses the ID INFO
EXPO 2006 on August 23 in
Kansas City.
Interview 6:20
NIAA
Johanns Interview
(NIAA
Johanns Trade.jpg)
Secretary
Johanns meets with exhibitors
at the ID INFO EXPO 2006 trade
show.
2. NIAA
Press Conference
Press conference with NIAA
Board Chairman Scott Stuart,
NIAA ID Committee Chairman Dr.
Robert
Fourdraine, ID INFO
Expo Co-chair Glenn Fischer.
Stuart is also CEO of National
Livestock Producers
Association, Fourdraine is
with the Wisconsin Livestock
Identification Consortium, and
Fischer is
Senior Vice
President of ALLFLEX USA.
Time
17:00
NIAA
Board Members
(NIAA
Press Conference.jpg)
Left to right:
ID INFO Expo Co-chair Glenn
Fischer, NIAA Board Chairman
Scott Stuart, NIAA ID
Committee Chairman Dr. Robert Fourdraine
Written remarks:
(Stuart
Statement.doc)
(Fourdraine
Statement.doc)
(Fischer
Statement.doc)
3. Dr.
John Clifford, USDA, APHIS,
Veterinary Services, Chief
Veterinary Officer
Interview 7:13
NIAA
Clifford
(NIAA
Clifford.jpg)
Dr. John
Clifford addresses the ID INFO
EXPO 2006 on August 23 in
Kansas City.
(NIAA
Clifford.ppt)
3. Mr.
Orlando (Rich) Baca, USDA,
APHIS, VS, CEAH, on Animal
Trace Processing System
Interview 7:13
NIAA
Baca
(NIAA Baca.jpg)
Dr. John
Clifford addresses the ID INFO
EXPO 2006 on August 23 in
Kansas City.
(NIAA Baca.ppt)
4. Mr.
Neil Hammerschmidt, USDA,
APHIS, Veterinary Services, on
Animal Identification
System
Interview 4:41
NIAA
Hammerschmidt
(NIAA Hammerschmidt.jpg)
Neil
Hammerschmidt addresses the ID
INFO EXPO 2006 on August 23 in
Kansas City.
(NIAA Hammerschmidt.ppt)
ID/INFO EXPO is
an event held annually by the
National Institute for Animal
Agriculture (NIAA) and has
become one of the premier
meetings on animal
identification. TRI-MERIT™,
a
single-source animal tracking
and verification program
powered by Global Animal
Management, Inc. (GAM) is
sponsoring the pressroom at
the event.
The ID INFO
EXPO concludes on Thursday
August 24. Our final report
tomorrow will feature a number
of other presenters from both
Wednesday and Thursday.
CONTACT
INFORMATION
The Media
Center is in the Penn Valley
Room of the Westin Crown
Center in Kansas City. It
will be open from 4:00 p.m.
Monday-Noon on Thursday.
The phone
number there is 816-843-4828.
Cell phone
numbers for NIAA Staff in KC
are:
Gale Johnson, 540-660-1849
Cora Newsom, 812-661-2399
David Brown, 270-991-7125
ZimmComm New
Media contact is:
Cindy Zimmerman, 573-353-6118
Following the
meeting, contact:
Gale Johnson
540-635-4564
gjohnson@animalagriculture.org
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