As far as Policy, Policy tries to get back to you right away through their FSIS Houser, get you an answer to your particular policy issue, and when been handed off to the user support group, the T3 that Judy talked it’s know it right away that your been solved. about, you’ll issue’s why we moved to where we are. If that does not meet your So that’s needs then we want your feedback. We certainly welcome any feedback that not meeting your needs and deal with it at that point. it’s we’ll C. Stovall What seeing so far looks fine. I just wanted to be sure what to we’re that’s tell my people to expect. just a little different than what we had seen It’s before. you answered that earlier. Oh, during training in March, prior to … implementation at exports would be had been— … B. Smith Okay. So you were breaking up there but I think your question was when can you expect exports to be under PHIS? And so first and foremost we want to get the domestic PHIS implemented, and full functionality, that’s and we want that completed by the time So, that training’s completed. would be . Following that will be the import implementation because we feel next important for our inspection program personnel to start the that’s import PHIS stuff and be winter of 2012. that’ll Export, a little more challenging for us from the standpoint that with that’s 110 countries, things are constantly changing. So, when we originally had programmed PHIS, it was with a definition that certain product classes or alma classes or species were what we were dealing with. Now, several of the countries have come back and they want subspecies. Some will allow bundling of certs. Some will not allow bundling of certs. So you just have a under this scenario. can’t “one size fits all” figuring out how going to address all those possible So, we’re we’re scenarios and be able to deliver what the inspector needs in an export PHIS. So, I think we can safely say going to follow the PHIS that’s import by months. I you a hard date right now, but it would be can’t give into 2012 for sure. In the meantime, continue doing we’ll what we’re doing with exports. W Okay. Gwendolyn, ready for our next question. we’re
As far as Policy, Policy tries to get back to you right away through their FSIS Houser, get you an answer to your particular policy issue, and when it’s been handed off to the user support group, the T3 that Judy talked about, you’ll know it right away that your issue’s been solved. So that’s why we moved to where we are. If that does not meet your needs then we want your feedback. We certainly welcome any feedback that it’s not meeting your needs and we’ll deal with it at that point. C. Stovall What we’re seeing so far looks fine. I just wanted to be sure that’s what to tell my people to expect. It’s just a little different than what we had seen before. … you answered that earlier. Oh, during training in March, prior to implementation at exports would be … had been— B. Smith Okay. So you were breaking up there but I think your question was when can you expect exports to be under PHIS? And so first and foremost we want to get the domestic PHIS implemented, and that’s full functionality, and we want that completed by the time training’s completed. So, that would be . Following that will be the import implementation because we feel that’s next important for our inspection program personnel to start the import PHIS stuff and that’ll be winter of 2012. Export, that’s a little more challenging for us from the standpoint that with 110 countries, things are constantly changing. So, when we originally had programmed PHIS, it was with a definition that certain product classes or alma classes or species were what we were dealing with. Now, several of the countries have come back and they want subspecies. Some will allow bundling of certs. Some will not allow bundling of certs. So you just can’t have a “one size fits all” under this scenario. So, we’re figuring out how we’re going to address all those possible scenarios and be able to deliver what the inspector needs in an export PHIS. So, I think we can safely say that’s going to follow the PHIS import by months. I can’t give you a hard date right now, but it would be into 2012 for sure. In the meantime, we’ll continue doing what we’re doing with exports. W Okay. Gwendolyn, we’re ready for our next question.
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