Health committee  On the relationship between the size of animal production and the use of antimicrobials, no, I don't have any comment. I don't think there's any relationship to the size of production. I think a lot of it relates to regulation, not the larger the herd the more antibiotics you use

Health committee  I think there would be huge management differences with different farms.

Health committee  Put one person or one group in charge. There are overlapping jurisdictions federally, which is the problem. There's the Public Health Agency and the veterinary drugs directorate and you need one person in charge. The medical physicians want that. The veterinarians want that. Then

Health committee  I'll hand it over to Jean. I'm not aware of any.

Health committee  The approval of drugs is a federal responsibility. It is done through Health Canada and monitored partly by CFIA. The use of antimicrobial drugs is a provincial responsibility, through the veterinary acts or livestock medicines acts. There's this federal-provincial crack, which

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I won't say too much, but I will draw the attention of the committee to the 2002 Health Canada report called Uses of Antimicrobials in Food Animals in Canada: Impact on Resistance and Human Health. This was an absolutely outstanding report, which involved c