Health committee  Cooking is probably the best risk management tool at our hands to eliminate the concerns about bacteria, whether they be resistant or non-resistant. With the food level, I think that's one of the simplest risk management tools.

Health committee  I'll just qualify your ending statement. Everything poses a risk, but the question becomes can we manage the risk? There's lots of effort put into managing the risk. On your other question, about use of antimicrobials and the impact on resistance--I think that's what it boils do

Health committee  I don't know exactly, but I'm going to say several decades.

Health committee  As part of our submission review, we do have guidelines that outline the technical requirements a new drug would have to meet in order to be licensed in Canada. Companies must conduct studies to meet those standards, and those are reviewed and assessed by the veterinarians at Hea

Health committee  Back to a statement made by Mr. Smith--I think it was Mr. Smith--that 75% of antimicrobials are used in food animal production, I think one of the points we were trying to make.... I don't know what the percentage is in Canada, but I have seen some data that said that of those, 4

Health committee  I happen to have the Denmark map report for 2009. I'm reading right from the document, so this is the Danish experience. It says that for production animals in general, the consumption of antimicrobial agents has increased by 59% from 2000 to 2009, mainly because of an increase i

Health committee  They continue to monitor it, but you haven't seen dramatic changes in human health in the Danish experience, from what I understand. The situation is similar in some of the other European countries where they're doing the monitoring.

Health committee  Chair, committee members, and guests, I am pleased to be here today representing the companies that manufacture and distribute animal medications. Animal medications are intended to keep animals healthy, and they have a secondary role in limiting human exposure to zoonotic dise