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Agriculture committee I don't think the consumers are really concerned about your member's problems in terms of processing the foods and where they came from. I reiterate that we have to make that distinction. What is it that we are trying to convey? What information are we trying to convey to consu
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Yes, we should be focusing on having truthful, useful information in the labelling, and no confusion in the minds of consumers. And to that end, it seems to me that maintaining the “Product of Canada” label, but clarifying exactly what that means would be preferable to introducin
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee The labelling of origin for food products should be mandatory. We probably should maintain the “product of” type of designation, but make that a much tighter definition indicating truly that the product was grown or raised in Canada. Voluntary labelling would work, I think, for
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee I'm sorry, they should not.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee No, not necessarily.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee No, because as I said, I think the consumers are looking at it from two different perspectives. One is the safety or security one, and that's the one that is usually foremost when we're talking about foodstuffs. The other is the economic benefit one, and that would apply across a
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee I think that certainly is the information we want to have. On the types of things you were talking about, I'm not sure whether you were suggesting there be a “grown in” and a “product of” as two separate labels.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Okay. I would just suggest that it could work if it's going to replace “product of”. However, remember the consumer makes a distinction, which might be slightly confusing, between “grown” and “raised”. Although technically there is no distinction, they may mean different things t
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Remember that if you introduce a new term, you have to make it very clear to people through some kind of campaign what has gone, what is new, and what the new means.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Again, that gets back to the point I've made several times now on the intent of that marking. What is it intended to convey? This suggests that perhaps we do need two different types of markings, depending on, first, whether it's intended to convey an element of safety or securit
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Yes, and I hope so. I think the direction is correct and I hope that's where we wind up.
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee If I went to the supermarket, and in fact I do most of the shopping in my house as well, I think I would want to know where it came from. I certainly don't want to be told that it came from someplace it didn't. I did not see the products, but from what you said, it sounded as tho
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee It had U.S. labels, which suggests that it came from the States. Regarding the one that I didn't know where it came from, I'd probably be inclined, at least in that case, to go for one of the ones that I knew where they came from, rather than the one that I didn't. If none of the
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee That, unfortunately, becomes a very complex situation. Basically, I'd say food products should be marked, but there may be circumstances in which it is not practical to do so. As I said, with respect to food products, I think it should be mandatory when we are dealing with consum
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman
Agriculture committee Certainly a product in which you can uniquely identify the items...as I said, mixed vegetables, where you may have peas, carrots, corn, or something in it and you can identify each of those, and there's no blending together of them. For all of those products to be labelled “Produ
April 17th, 2008Committee meeting
Mel Fruitman