Click here for a transcript of remarks made by US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the US Partnership for Food Safety Education.

US Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns, congratulates the Partnership on its efforts to engage the nation's retailers in the Be Food Safe in-store campaign.

Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, Andrew von Eschenbach addressed the Partnership anniversary celebration September 18 in Washington:  "We look at food safety from a process of prevention, intervention through to response.  One of the most important groups in that process is, in fact, consumers."