Health committee  Yes, you need to make sure that the food is truly heated through. In terms of even the prepared dinners and things, you look at them now and they're talking about ensuring that it's heated through if you're using a microwave or an oven. That is important. For fans of fried bolo

Health committee  The FPT process, which is looking at that, setting down governance issues and all of that, is ongoing. We can certainly give you an update before the House rises, but it will be an update. There's still a great deal of discussion to go on.

Health committee  That policy applies to listeria. There are other policies for other organisms.

Health committee  That sounds like a good number.

Health committee  I can talk to that. I will start, and then I'll pass it over. The $17 million that came to the agency is a mix around improving our lab diagnostic and networking tools in terms of the work with provincial labs, etc. That actually covers a number of the recommendations and the mo

Health committee  I'll just speak to it quickly, and then I'll turn it over to Sammy. The research is still preliminary on it. It doesn't eliminate shedding; it just reduces it. So that shed is still there, and once it's on meat it can still grow. So it doesn't eliminate the problem, it just shi

Health committee  But there are other means to...I mean, they're engineering them. Whether it's pig farms or cattle farms or whatever, sewage containment and control in terms of environmental protection is another issue. It may be useful, but again, the studies to this point are, for instance, is

Health committee  Well, I think it's a multiple. We're involved, from the public health aspects. I'll leave it to you now.

Health committee  The point is that it is an area of emphasis and work, and something that they're working towards. The investment, I think, will certainly assist that.

Health committee  I'll get started from a public health standpoint and then leave it. One thing that OECD and others.... Some 90% of Canadians have confidence in the food safety system in Canada. But it's interesting that a little less than half of them think you can tell food is bad by looking a

Health committee  In practical terms, I think it will allow us to get the communications more quickly, the recognition of the problem more quickly, and the engagement of other parts of the system more quickly, so that the decisions come more quickly about what else needs to be done. As well, the

Health committee  We can certainly take responsibility for our part, and we can relay the request to others.

Health committee  In practical terms, what, a week to 10 days...?

Health committee  By the end of the month.

Health committee  Surveillance is going on all the time in the sense that if someone is ill, they go to the hospital or the doctor's office. They may or may not be tested. If they are tested, then that will eventually end up in the lab. If it's one of the organisms we're interested in, then local