In Grand Rapids for the day to witness a production capacity improvement project at Michigan Turkey Producers, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Xochitl Torres Small and several state and regional agriculture agency leads held a listening session to hear what issues are of greatest concern to local agriculture and related industries. During the session, Taza Aya took the opportunity to introduce and explain its wearable air curtain technology for protecting workers at processing facilities from communicable diseases, supported in part by a grant from the Meat and Poultry Processing Research Initiative (MPPRI).