Last month, I spent the day in Washington, D.C. with other industry associations and the scientific working groups that we have put together to work on Appendix A & B issues.
We spent the morning going over the preliminary results of the studies on Lethality (Appendix A) and stabilization (Appendix B) and prepared for our presentations to FSIS staff that afternoon. The meeting with FSIS lasted about four hours; I feel it went very well. The working group of scientists and industry experts did a tremendous job in presenting their research, as well as some of the holes they felt existed in the current science used by FSIS. The information was well received, and a second meeting is being planned with a larger group from FSIS.