No. The basic principle is that the agency will inspect the finished products to ensure that products sold in Canada are safe.
Depending on the finished products, an audit can be done using the risk techniques and determine whether there is a safety issue. There are different ways to proceed.
Mr. Gorrell talked about results-based regulation. We try to negotiate equivalences, not to follow exactly the same manufacturing protocol, but to achieve the same result.
What is important for the agency is whether the finished product is safe, regardless of how it was produced. So it's the final product that must be tested.
We can actually be satisfied with production methods. In fact, this is what the agency did recently when it visited establishments where poultry is raised in Hungary.