Mike Willett is on the phone providing background on a pest of possible quarantine concern to U.S. Department of Agriculture negotiators in Washington, D.C. These government officials with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services are working with the Northwest Horticultural Council to re-open an export market in Asia. Meanwhile, Mark Powers is writing a report to industry on his travel to Russia to investigate a transportation bottleneck at the Port of St. Petersburg. Down the hall, Debbie Carter is researching the latest water-testing protocols related to E. coli 0157:H7 for the next meeting of the new Pacific Northwest Food […]