In Canada there is a service guarantee for safety assessments. Risk assessments don't take quite as long as a full health and safety assessment for full approval. We have not really had a low-level presence issue in Canada yet, so it's hard to know. We have had a couple of what we call “adventitious presences”, which are escapes from research labs or things like that, where it's not approved anywhere, and the risk assessments have taken longer. But where it's already fully approved somewhere else—and in the case of grain for food and feed, there is an international body, under the codex, that talks about how to do a risk assessment and how to do a safety assessment—I think it would probably take a little less time than a full safety assessment.
On March 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.