To conclude, Mr. Chair, as we've testified on numerous occasions on BSE testing, we do recognize that other countries have adopted different approaches, for different reasons that are not food safety and public health related.
As has been seen in many countries, testing young animals at slaughter, while it may inflate numbers, has no potential to detect BSE, because (a) those animals are not affected at that young an age, and (b) the test methods are not validated to find it even if the animals could incubate the disease. The approach we have taken has been driven by science.
On the issue of SRM removal, in fact Canada did, in 2006, publish a total removal of all SRM from animal feed. That has been in force since July 2007.