There are international forums, whether it's the OIE or it's through the WTO or Codex, that establish standards for things like maximum residue levels. We don't have one for LLP, but we'd like to see one. Standards for BSE, for example, would be done through the OIE. Those are the appropriate forums to deal with this because those are science-based organizations. Then it becomes up to us as a country to work with those organizations to establish what we think are the appropriate standards.
Where it becomes a problem is when you have countries like Korea, for example, that don't abide by the OIE standard on BSE, and then we have to go to the WTO to challenge them.
What we don't want to see is a country-by-country decision on issues that are science-based. Science is science; it should be relatively consistent around the world, and we need to work through these international bodies to come up with an internationally agreed upon standard.
On LLP, for example—Richard can speak to this—on the low-level presence of genetically modified material, what we have right now is a hodge-podge around the world of some countries that accept a level of low-level presence, some that don't, and it frankly ties up our trade anywhere you turn.
These issues exist. As long as we have genetically modified materials in the world, which we do and they're growing, this is an issue that has to be dealt with. What we need to do is find some sort of international home that has a science background, where we can establish standards that are safe and that are credible, and then through that international body encourage its member countries to comply with the standards. Then we’d have recourse mechanisms. But right now we don't have that, and this is where we really need to focus our attention.