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Health committee Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. I appreciate the invitation to be with you here today. For those I have not met, my name is Fred Schaeffer. I'm the president and CEO of McCain Foods Canada, as well as the current chair of Food and Consumer Products of Canada, the lar
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee Correct.
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee For me, I think the issue is not really about whether there is a second system that could be complementary, but what that second system is. For example, the reason we're not as thrilled about the U.K. system is that it doesn't allow comparison across categories, or even within ca
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee There are number of questions there. Regarding the question that I heard directed to me—which was whether I know how many specific products are here in Canada that would qualify on various criteria in the traffic light labelling system—I have no idea, in all honesty.
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee Honestly, I don't know that answer either.
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee Could you repeat the question? I'm not sure I understood it.
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee We comply with all regulations. If it's regulated, we comply. It's that simple.
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee We respect the local requirements of each government. In the United States.... Those are the rules of the game. Canada has certain rules, and the U.S. has certain laws. Would I like them to be one? If that's the question, I can answer that one. But if the question is whether we
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee English.
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee With regard to the two questions addressed to me, one was on whether we would put a colouring system on top of the current nutrition facts table. I'll address the question more broadly, and you can come back if you don't like the answer. Perhaps the question behind the question
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee Industry studies, orders of magnitude: circa $150 million when we went to MNL, mandatory nutrition labeling. Regarding packaging, I don't know if that's roughly equivalent with—
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee To that I would say there are several “I'll try not to bog you down in the quagmire of technical details on packaging” kinds of packaging changes. They're what we call single plate changes, where you need to change an ingredient because it's no longer available or you've chosen t
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee Yes.
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee I think it was in my pitch, so I'll try to answer it for you. That was based on some polling that was done, going out and asking people what their primary source of nutritional information was. When you ask people that, they say it's the nutrition facts panel. In response to the
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer
Health committee With regard to the question about whether or not you can quickly adapt something that's working elsewhere, put aside the fact of whether you believe the system works or not. The practical execution of best adapting and having to change the packaging.... The last time we went thro
February 21st, 2007Committee meeting
Fred Schaeffer