Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Dufour. Madam Chair, we do not feel that an advisory committee would slow the inspectors' work down. Depending on the questions it was asked to consider, the committee could provide very useful advice to our department and to the government. In fact, it would help

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Dufour. I have no objection to the amendment.

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Once again, we are in favour of Mr. Dufour's amendment. We have no concerns with it. (Amendment agreed to)

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, we are in favour of Mr. Dufour's amendment. We have no concerns with it.

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. We are in favour of the amendment that Mr. Dufour is proposing. We think that a reasonable period...it would mean that the minister would have to tell the person or the business in question that the information has been disclosed no later than the next bu

Health committee  Thank you, Paul. Let me go back to the problem with the little magnets. The bill would require the distributors of a product to provide us with incident reports. When the little magnets came loose, those were incidents. Some children swallowed them and had health problems as a

Health committee  That is really a very good question. The European Union and the United States have changed, modernized, their legislative framework in recent years. Adjustments must be made to accommodate all the changes made to the legislation. Under Bill C-6, our efforts will be in changing o

Health committee  Certainly.

Health committee  Thank you, Paul. When we talk about doubling the number of inspectors, it is an estimate. We have already started hiring a number of them. At the beginning of the fiscal year, that is, in April 2008, there were about 42 inspectors. Today, there are 56. We will increase our inspe

Health committee  That is a very good question. I would like to able to tell you that everything will be done very quickly. The partnerships with border services have been established. Measures are in place to facilitate the exchange of information that will allow us to identify the products that

Health committee  As Mr. Glover mentioned, it was always very clear to us that natural health products were not covered by this bill, as we discussed when we met. However, to make the legislation even clearer, this amendment was proposed, but it is the only one since our meeting.

Environment committee  Under the Food and Drugs Act, they've received a health assessment. However, they have not been assessed for their impact on the environment and the indirect impact on human health as a result of being exposed through the environment. These assessments will have to be conducted s

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Shannon. Yes, one of the issues we are looking at in our program is best practices for recuperating some of these pharmaceuticals to prevent their getting into landfill and ultimately into our water supply. This is one of the practices for wh

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. We need to be clear that the in-commerce list is purely an administrative list that we developed at Health Canada and Environment Canada to identify the substances that were in commerce from January 1, 1987, to September 2001. Those 9,000 substances do not

Environment committee  Currently they are all new substances under the act. That's right.