Your members, and the department itself, have been facing a concern, in growing unanimity, from farmers who are concerned about the regulatory regime they face. They accept that, but they have a great deal of problem with imported products that do not face the same inspections on safety. We have no idea of what types of ground things are grown in, whether they're adding formaldehyde and those types of things.
Without knowing what this document said, the public safety concern is, how will we ever know if our farmers are actually on a level playing field if the stuff they have to compete against doesn't follow the same rules?