Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. The problem is more with understanding the concept. The wording comes from elsewhere. It comes from some trading partners south of the border, and we are trying to accommodate their wording, I think. So what we need to know is what it means. For the l

Agriculture committee  Yes. We compared notes with the other commodities, too, like with cattlemen, with the pork, with chicken, and they have the same concerns. It's understanding what it means.

Agriculture committee  Also, yes, which have been highly supported by Agriculture Canada and CFIA since the middle nineties....

Agriculture committee  Thank you for the question. When proper consultation is carried out, producers can see that they are being heard as the process moves along. This consultation leads to decisions that are, to a certain extent, recognized in Bill C-18. When producers become concerned is when they

Agriculture committee  That is also a good question. Organic farmers have learned to coexist with non-organic farmers. Some of our members have large organic farming operations in British Columbia. There are also some in Quebec, Ontario and other provinces. They don't have any major concerns, but adju

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much for the invitation, Mr. Chair and honourable members. I'm going to talk on behalf of these guys or gals who are busy producing food, and on behalf of the staff at Dairy Farmers of Canada. Our president, Mr. Wally Smith, sends you his regrets for not being ab

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Specifically regarding traceability, we understand the new government program is coming. It's going to be in major part a government responsibility, where they pick up the cost of traceability. Whether or not this will happen is another question, but that's what we are told. They

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  As you're aware, animals need to be identified on the farm. Possibly in dairy every cow is identified. There is a national system, called national livestock identification, that has been in force, and animals need to be identified; it's a regulation. The tag in the animal's ear i

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  I was adding to Richard's. The chief medical officer of each province is involved in developing the strategy.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  The process is the same; everything is tested. The only place it varies is where they may use a test that is different from one province to another, but they are equivalent tests: they have the same outcome. There is more than one test to detect the presence of residues, and diff

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  There are inspectors in plants that export their product. There are also plants that are inspected by the provincial inspectors.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  One way or another, yes.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  He is a biologist and I am a nutritionist. I have a doctorate in animal nutrition.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on Food Safety committee  Milk could contain Listeria and pathogenic bacteria. Throughout the production process, efforts are made to keep these contaminants at a low level my maintaining the temperature of the milk below 5°. At that temperature, the bacteria do not grow. Once the milk is delivered to the