Actually, no. Compliance verification is really the agency's tool in verifying that the industry has done what it is expected to do.
When we talk about latitude, what we talk about is shifting the regulatory framework to one that focuses on what the expectation of the industry is, rather than telling them how to do it. For example, we had a requirement related to a slaughter facility that they had to have a paved parking lot. Well, the real interest we had was to ensure that dust in the environment didn't enter the plant to contaminate the product.
What we want to shift to in the future is rather than telling a company what it must do, instead let's be clear on what we want in terms of the food safety outcome. That way companies can adapt to the achievement of that outcome in a way that makes the most sense for their particular operating environment. It may be that rather than a paved parking lot, they use dust suppression methods that work better for them.
So when we say latitude—