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President Bush Meets with the Import Safety Working Group
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary July 18, 2007

President Bush Meets with the Import Safety Working Group Roosevelt Room

˙ /news/releases/2007/07/20070718-6.wm.v.html ˙˙Presidential Remarks
˙˙Audio

˙˙˙˙˙ Executive Order: Establishing An Interagency Working Group on Import
Safety

2:50 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: The American people expect their government to work
tirelessly to make sure consumer products are safe. And that is precisely
what my administration is doing.

I've called together key members of my Cabinet to review the procedures in
place, the regulations in place, the practices in place to make sure that
our food supply remains the safest in the world. The world is changing, and
in order to make sure that we can continue to have the confidence of our
consumers, that we will continually review practices and procedures to
assure the American consumer.

And so I've asked Mike Leavitt, the Secretary of HHS, to lead a task group
that will report back to me in 60 days on a strategy that will review
procedures in place and regulations in place to make sure that they're
meeting the needs of a changing world; that part of our strategy is we work
with our countries from which we import goods to make sure that their
procedures and practices will give us comfort. And, finally, we'll be
working with companies that import goods from around the world, to make
sure that their practices meet the high standards that we set for the
United States.

This is a serious issue -- food safety and consumer safety is a serious
issue. We take it seriously and we spend a lot of time on it in this
administration. So Michael, I want to thank you very much for taking on
this task force. It's important for the American people to know their
government is on top of the situation and constantly reviewing procedures
and practices. So thank you.

END 2:52 P.M. EDT

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