In fact, when Mr. Guimond appeared two days ago, he said that as soon as the agency was made aware of the problem of contaminated melamine from China, quality control tests were carried out on all imports. Products coming from China were targeted, and not only those which were imported by the manufacturer concerned, but products imported by all manufacturers. The alert was then broadened to include all vegetable protein derived from rice, rice gluten, wheat gluten, soya, etc. We acted as soon as the new products arrived, we also carried out retrospective analyses to check all imports received over the last six months from China and to determine how these were used in food for human consumption or in cattle feed. Our investigation did not uncover any problems similar to the ones experienced in the United States. As I said, you have to remember that in the United States, small animal feed was fed to cattle. This is how the contamination spread.
On May 3rd, 2007. See this statement in context.