Respectfully, sir, I simply have to disagree with your analysis.
As I've been trying to emphasize, that memo was from a supervisor giving specific instruction to one individual whose job and task at that station was simply to certify the requirements for Japan for export. That individual was being told “That is your job.” All of our other people were focused, as they should be, on food safety and dealing with all of the other issues.
As I've explained—and if you want more detail, Mr. Mayers can provide quite a bit of detail—the critical control points for dealing with those contaminants were after that inspection station, so I would disagree that we were not focusing on food safety. This is simply an instruction given to one particular position on what the individual at that position is supposed to do.