"I understand that. But I think you said that they sent the material out to places where they were not part--they didn't receive any of the product, or in fact, they may have been out of business, as I read your report--and there was no way to make any kind of substitution from this master list, if y..."
"That sounds pretty basic to me, that if you can't find the places that are, you know, where the risk is, that once again flies in the face of risk-based inspection procedures."
"We continue to have these bad actors selling ground beef to the national school lunch program."
"this is not mandated for us to do, but the issue is so critical and so important that we really wanted to get you here to address this."
"it's a moral responsibility, in my view, what we're talking about here."
"the Secretary spoke last week about, and I talked to my colleague, Allyson Schwartz, where this healthy food initiative is working to get nutritious foods into what are the food deserts."
"It's not affordable."
"I am exasperated. I am tired of this."
"I have grave concerns, really grave concerns about how an agency can adequately determine a supplier's eligibility for a program if they do not know if all the non-conformances are in the tracking sys..."
"Again, we continue to allow contractors who are in gross violation, not once, not twice, many times over, to continue to participate and sell a product to the school lunch program."
"I would also like to indicate I asked you and we need to talk about this not here but in another venue, to talk about what authorities you need."